Background
Alan Rodgers was born on August 11, 1959 in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
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Blood of the Children
(When Ben Tompkins moves to Green Hill with Jimmy, his son...)
When Ben Tompkins moves to Green Hill with Jimmy, his son, he unknowningly enters a web of evil, as a local cult of children practice their secret magical rites.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Children-Alan-Rodgers/dp/0553283359/?tag=2022091-20
1990
Fire
(In the wake of a devastating nuclear conflagration, a sma...)
In the wake of a devastating nuclear conflagration, a small group of men and women journeys to the heartland of America and becomes caught up in the ultimate confrontation between the powers of good and evil.
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Alan-Rodgers/dp/055328777X/?tag=2022091-20
1990
Night
(Timothy Fischer’s grandfather is the keeper of the remain...)
Timothy Fischer’s grandfather is the keeper of the remains of Jesus’ cross. Timothy discovers the relic as a young child and years later, after his grandfather is murdered, inherits the obligation to protect it. The cross has the power to work miracles or wreak destruction, and forces are reaching out across centuries to claim it.
https://www.amazon.com/Night-Rodgers-Fiction-Fantasy-Horror/dp/159818623X/?tag=2022091-20
1991
New Life for the Dead
(This is a collection of five stories and seven poems.)
This is a collection of five stories and seven poems.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Life-Dead-Alan-Rodgers/dp/1587151057
1991
Bone Music
(This book combines horror and a history of blues culture,...)
This book combines horror and a history of blues culture, including in its cast of characters such notable blues figures as Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Ma Rainey. When Robert Johnson sings "Judgment Day," demons are called up to the streets of New Orleans in this tale of Santeria (an African-inspired religion) voodoo. The song was not intended to be sung until the Rapture at the end of the world, but when Johnson sings it on his deathbed, he opens the "Eye of the World" and threatens the earth with damnation.
https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Music-Alan-Rodgers-2003-02-06/dp/B01K96732C/?tag=2022091-20
1994
Pandora
(There's a story that goes 'round about strange events out...)
There's a story that goes 'round about strange events outside Roswell, New Mexico, and how they led to a hangar in Ohio and the three dead aliens that lie stored inside it. Most everyone has heard the tale at one time or another. And because it goes 'round the way it does — metamorphosing ever so slightly with every retelling — some people say the tale is nothing but a scrap of modern folklore; a legend alive in every bar and coffee house across the land. Pandora knows better. Pandora knows all about the strange events outside Roswell — and she knows even more about the stranger ones that followed. She knows that there weren't three dead aliens in the wreckage of the doomed ship. Not three, but four. Three dead adults and a single living, breathing infant. That infant was Pandora. Years now the government has raised her in captivity, unknowable and secret inside a classified Air Force Facility in Ohio. This morning Pandora escaped in the dark dark hours before dawn. And through the miracle of modern satellite television, all the world has seen her. And the government wants her back.
https://www.amazon.com/Pandora-Rodgers-Alan/dp/1587151731/?tag=2022091-20
1995
The Bear Who Found Christmas
(Joey Robins is nine years old and his dad Sam is transfer...)
Joey Robins is nine years old and his dad Sam is transferred from Virginia to California. The family has to move cross-country, and Joey won't let the movers take his toy bear. He has to ride in the car with Joey, his dad, and mom Belinda. Joey is probably too old to love a Teddy Bear, but he does. Bear is his best friend and when you meet his parents, you'll see why. Joey loved the bear so hard and long and pure, so deeply and so truly and so powerfully, that Bear began to grow a heart. Nobody ever would have known about Bear at all, in fact, if Joey hadn’t lost him at the motel not far from the haunted shopping mall on Christmas Eve... And so begins a great quest, as Bear tries to find Christmas and Joey. A timeless classic for all seasons.
https://www.amazon.com/Bear-Who-Found-Christmas-ebook/dp/B017T2B56Y/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Her Misbegotten Son
(There are sins that whisper melodies of madness through t...)
There are sins that whisper melodies of madness through the blood; sins that sing to us down and across the generations — no matter what the distance, we know them when we see them, and perhaps they know us, too. Keziah Mason was born a world away in time. She died horribly an age ago - or more. Now, there are whispers on the streets that she's returned. Returned as an old woman, ragged and unclean as any vagabond wandering the streets of Arkham. The sort of woman you or I might take to be an ordinary madwoman - until we draw close, and see her eyes. Eyes the color of dark light; eyes that glitter hatefully; eyes that watch everyone and everything around her with predatory yearning. Yearning - for a child. There are no words to tell a child all the horrors that abound in Arkham and the world. Not even malformed and orphaned Jason Laidlaw, the boy who is her misbegotten son. A boy as innocent as you or I - a boy who knows the evil in our bones. A child doomed by generations made of evil, and damned by birthright in a city haunted as its name. ARKHAM - welcome to the city of fear.
https://www.amazon.com/Her-Misbegotten-Son-Alan-Rodgers/dp/1587151553/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Cannot-Sleep-Alan-Rodgers/dp/1587151065/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Battlestar Galactica: Rebellion
(After their world is destroyed in a surprise attack, a gr...)
After their world is destroyed in a surprise attack, a group of human stragglers flees the evil Cylon Empire in a convoy of space vehicles searching for a mythical homeland known only as "Earth," finding themselves trapped in a pocket of null-space in which their stardrives will not work.
https://www.amazon.com/Rebellion-Battlestar-Galactica-Alan-Rodgers/dp/074349802X
2002
Alan Rodgers
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also known as
Alan Paul Rodgers
Career
Alan Rodgers was an associate editor of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine and solo editor of the spinoff magazine Night Cry from 1985 to 1987. His first novel, Blood of the Children (1989), is horror, but his second, Fire (1990), combines science fiction and horror in a near-future story in which a fundamentalist United States President threatens a nuclear attack against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), while at the same time a lab explosion unleashes a virus which raises the dead and a telepathic entity which takes on the aspect of the Beast of Revelation.
There were two collections of his fiction, New Life for the Dead (1991) and Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep (2000). His last credited publication was Battlestar Galactica: Rebellion (2002) with Richard Hatch.
Achievements
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Alan Rodgers was known for his works such as Bone Music, Pandora, Fire, Night, The Bear Who Found Christmas, Her Misbegotten Son, Alien Love. In 1987 he was nominated for World Fantasy Award for his book "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead". In 1990 his "Blood of the Children" was also nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
Works
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Battlestar Galactica: Rebellion
(After their world is destroyed in a surprise attack, a gr...)
2002 -
Her Misbegotten Son
(There are sins that whisper melodies of madness through t...)
2000 -
Fire
(In the wake of a devastating nuclear conflagration, a sma...)
1990 -
Bone Music
(This book combines horror and a history of blues culture,...)
1994 -
Pandora
(There's a story that goes 'round about strange events out...)
1995 -
Blood of the Children
(When Ben Tompkins moves to Green Hill with Jimmy, his son...)
1990 -
The Bear Who Found Christmas
(Joey Robins is nine years old and his dad Sam is transfer...)
2000 -
Night
(Timothy Fischer’s grandfather is the keeper of the remain...)
1991 -
New Life for the Dead
(This is a collection of five stories and seven poems.)
1991 - Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep 2000
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Battlestar Galactica: Rebellion
Connections
Alan Rodgers had three children: Alexandra, Andrea, and Abram.
References
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Contemporary Authors
1998
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Born
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Died
March 8, 2014 (aged 54) -
Nationality
American