James Richard Cook (1944 – January 13, 2022) was an American author of novels and stories.
Personal life and death
James Richard Cook was born in 1944.
In 1988, Cook was living in
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities and towns in Arizona#List of cities and towns, most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona. With over 1.6 million residents at the 2020 census, it is the ...
. That June, he was a contestant on ''
Jeopardy!
''Jeopardy!'' is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead g ...
''; over the course of two days, he won a boxed ''Jeopardy!'' game, a Caribbean resort vacation on
Saint Martin via
Eastern Air Lines
Eastern Air Lines (also colloquially known as Eastern) was a major airline in the United States that operated from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution, it was headquartered at Miami International Airport in an unincorporated area of Miami-Dade ...
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and .
In the
Society for Creative Anachronism
The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly Medieval European cultures and their histories before the 17th century. A quip often used within the SCA describes ...
, where he co-founded the
Kingdom of Atenveldt, he was known as Sir Richard Ironsteed. Cook died on January 13, 2022.
Published works
Articles
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''Locus'' listed five articles published by Cook:
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Stories
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''Locus'' listed 13 stories published by Cook:
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Theodore Sturgeon Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story ...
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Novels
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''Locus'' listed eight books published by Cook:
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The first in Cook's ''Wizardry'' series, the novel and its December second printing were originally sold for .
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Originally sold for .
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The sequel to ''Wizard's Bane'', it originally sold for with cover art by
Larry Schwinger.
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The third ''Wizardry'' novel originally sold for with cover art by
Gary Ruddell.
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Originally sold for , with cover art by Gary Ruddell.
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The fourth book in the ''Wizardry'' series, it originally sold for with cover art by
Cortney Skinner and
Newell Convers.
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The fifth novel in the ''Wizardry'' series originally sold for and had cover art by Newell Convers and
John Pierrard.
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Omnibus of ''Wizard's Bane'' and ''The Wizardry Compiled'', it originally sold for , with cover art by
Tom Kidd.
References
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1944 births
2022 deaths
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
American fantasy writers
American male novelists
American male short story writers
contestants on American game shows