Authors: Peter David

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Peter’s comic book resume includes an award-winning twelve-year run on
The Incredible Hulk
, and he has also worked on such varied and popular titles as
Supergirl
,
Young Justice
,
Soulsearchers and Company
,
Aquaman
,
Spider-Man
,
Spider-Man 2099
,
X-Factor
,
Star Trek
,
Wolverine
,
The Phantom
,
Sachs & Violens
,
Fallen Angel
,
The Dark Tower
, and many others. He has also written comic book related novels, such as
The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast
, and co-edited
The Ultimate Hulk
short story collection. Furthermore, his opinion column, “But I Digress . . . ,” has been running in the industry trade newspaper
The Comic Buyers’s Guide
for nearly a decade, and in that time has been the paper’s consistently most popular feature and was also collected into a trade paperback edition.

Peter is also the writer for two popular video games:
Shadow Complex
and S
pider-Man: Edge of Time
.

Peter is the co-creator, with popular science fiction icon Bill Mumy (of
Lost in Space
and
Babylon 5
fame) of the Cable Ace Award-nominated science fiction series
Space Cases
, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon. He has written several scripts for the Hugo Award winning TV series
Babylon 5
, and the sequel series,
Crusade
. He has also written several films for Full Moon Entertainment and co-produced two of them, including two installments in the popular
Trancers
series, as well as the science fiction western spoof
Oblivion
, which won the Gold Award at the 1994 Houston International Film Festival for best Theatrical Feature Film, Fantasy/Horror category.

Peter’s awards and citations include: the Haxtur Award 1996 (Spain), Best Comic script; OZCon 1995 award (Australia), Favorite International Writer; Comic Buyers Guide 1995 Fan Awards, Favorite writer; Wizard Fan Award Winner 1993; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series (Starfleet Academy), 1994; UK Comic Art Award, 1993; Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1993. He lives in New York with his wife, Kathleen, and his four children, Shana, Gwen, Ariel, and Caroline.

You thought you knew about King Arthur and his knights? Guess again!

Learn here, for the first time, the down-and-dirty royal secrets that plagued Camelot as told by someone who was actually there, and adapted by acclaimed New York Times bestseller Peter David. Full of sensationalism, startling secrets and astounding revelations,
The Camelot Papers
is to the realm of Arthur what the Pentagon Papers is to the military: something that all those concerned would rather you didn’t see. What are you waiting for?

DuckBob Spinowitz has a problem. It isn’t the fact that he has the head of a duck—the abduction was years ago and he’s learned to live with it. But now those same aliens are back, and they claim they need his help! Can a man whose only talents are bird calls and bad jokes be expected to save the universe?

No Small Bills
is the hilarious new science fiction novel from award-winning, bestselling author Aaron Rosenberg. See why the NOOK Blog called it “an absurdly brilliant romp”—buy a copy and start laughing your tail feathers off today!

At the age of thirty-eight, Zeno Aristos has quit the NYPD but can’t figure out what he wants to do with his life. Then someone close to him is kidnapped, and the search leads through a gauntlet of increasingly dark and cryptic forces. The deeper Zeno digs, the more he realizes he’s dealing not with an earthly adversary but with an entity steeped in the deepest and most malevolent of ancient mysteries.

In
Fight The Gods
, Friedman takes a major creative step beyond the Star Trek novels, comic books, and television scripts with which his name has become synonymous, and braves the sinister rooftops and mystical back alleys of urban fantasy. Whatever you think you know of him or of his work . . . you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Matt Fisher was a normal boy—until he found the Door. The Door that led to the House. The House whose Doors opened into places all over the world—and into worlds that had been, and would be, and even never were. But Matt wasn’t the only one who’d found his way in. Now he had something the man named Twig wanted, something that could sow the seeds to everything’s destruction. This first book in the spine-tingling
Latchkeys
series, written by internationally best-selling author Steven Savile, sets the stage for more adventures with Matt Fisher and the rest of the Latchkeys Kids!

London, 1593. Christopher Marlowe—playwright, spy, and renowned womanizer—is desperately working on what could be his greatest play. Inspiration eludes him, until a chance encounter with a dark temptress rekindles his passion. But something doesn’t want him finishing, and it’s not just the Queen’s Privy Council. Illness and madness rampage through the streets, causing death and mayhem. Can the incandescent playwright stop the chaos before it overwhelms the entire city?

This new occult thriller from bestselling authors Aaron Rosenberg and Steven Savile combines Elizabethan theatre, ancient mythology, and ageless seduction to create a dark, gripping tale that is both as old as time itself and wholly original.

Athis, an apprentice wizard in the Crimson Keep, isn’t the brightest flame in the candelabra. So when he and another apprentice named Belid summon a demon and then panic, trouble ensues—trouble that threatens to snowball wildly out of control. Will they and their fellow student Klaria be able to deal with the consequences before their master finds out? Will the Crimson Keep still be standing when it’s all over?

Demon Circle
is an original novella from Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Bob Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Aaron Rosenberg, and Howard Weinstein, the writers behind the new author-driven publishing venture Crazy 8 Press. They wrote this story live at ShoreLeave33, and are donating all proceeds to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which protects the First Amendment rights of comic book writers, artists, retailers, and fans.