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John Pierce Askegren (June 9, 1955 – November 29, 2006)Social Security Death Index
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was an American author best known for his adaptations of licensed properties, particularly those of the
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Biography

Pierce Askegren was born in the
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, Pennsylvania, suburb of
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, and had two brothers, James W. and Robert, and a sister, Margaret. They grew up with their parents, Kenneth and Jacqueline Askegren, in
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; and
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before his family in 1970 settled in northern
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. He attended
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in
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, graduating in 1973, and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts from
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in 1978. Askegren got his start in the comics industry with three short stories published in 1979 and 1980 in
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'', beginning with the eight-page "Hell's Playground", illustrated by Leo Duranona, in ''Creepy'' No. 108 (June 1979).Pierce Askegren
at the
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His regular employment, however, came as a manager at Crown Book Stores in the Washington, D.C., area, and later as a technical writer first at ACS Corporation and then at C2 Corporation in the
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, area. Askegren began his reentry into pop culture by corresponding with
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in the early 1990s. Askegren eventually became the copy editor for Theakston's ''Bettie Pages'' while submitting his prose to publishing houses. By the mid-1990s, he was writing prose
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for anthologies starring
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characters, beginning with "The Broken Land" in ''The Ultimate
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'' (1995). He also contributed to ''The Ultimate Super-Villains'' (1996), ''Untold Tales of
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'' (1997), ''The Ultimate
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'' (1998) and ''The Chick Is in the Mail'' (2000). He also did novelizations, serving as the
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of ''Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk: Rampage'' (1996); as co-author with
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of ''Spider-Man and
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: Sabotage'' (1997); as co-author with Eric Fein of ''Spider-Man and Fantastic Four: Wreckage'' (1997); and as author of ''Marc Miller's Traveller: Gateway to the Stars'' (1998), ''Fantastic Four: Countdown to Chaos'' (1998) and ''The Avengers and the Thunderbolts'' (1999). Outside the realm of licensed properties, he wrote the "Inconstant Moon" trilogy of science-fiction novels, about corporate colonies on the moon: ''Human Resource'' (2005), ''Fall Girl'' (2005) and ''Exit Strategy'' (2006). His last short story, "Try and Try Again," appeared in the anthology ''Time Twisters'', released posthumously in January 2007. In 2010, his ''
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'' novelization, ''After Image'' (2006), was rereleased, along with two other Buffy books. Askegren was found dead in his
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Franchise novels

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: Doom's Day"Askegren, Pierce"
''SF Encyclopedia,'' Feb. 23, 2017. Accessed 28 April 2017.
**''Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk: Doom's Day 1: Rampage'' (Berkley Boulevard, 1996) uncredited (with Danny Fingeroth) **''Spider-Man and Iron Man: Doom's Day 2: Sabotage'' (Berkley Boulevard, 1997) (with Danny Fingeroth) **''Spider-Man and Fantastic Four: Doom's Day 3: Wreckage'' (Berkley Boulevard, 1997) (with Eric Fein) *''Gateway to the Stars: Marc Miller's Traveller'' (1998) *''
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and the Thunderbolts'' (1998) *''
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: Countdown to Chaos'' (1998) *'' Alias'' (with J. J. Abrams) * ''
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: The Longest Night, Volume One'' (Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing, 2002) *''Collateral Damage'' (2005) *''
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'': ''
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'' (Simon and Schuster/Spotlight Entertainment, 2006)


Series

*Inconstant Moon: **''Human Resource'' (2005) **''Fall Girl'' (2005) **''Exit Strategy'' (2006)


Short stories

Source:ISFDB bibliography
Pierce Askegren
/ref> *"Horse Laugh "(1979) *"The Broken Land" (1995) *"Private Exhibition" (1996) *"Better Looting Through Modern Chemistry" (with John Garcia) (1997) *"Pitfall" (1998) *"Foxy Boxer Gal Fights Giant Monster King!" (2000) *"Where the Bodies Are Buried" (2001) *"Try and Try Again" (2007)


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