Brad Linaweaver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Brad Linaweaver

American science fiction author

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1952

Place of Birth: Washington, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 29-Aug-2019

Profession: novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Bradford Swain Linaweaver (September 1, 1952 – August 29, 2019) was an American science fiction writer.
Linaweaver had original story credits on a number of films, including The Brain Leeches and Jack-O for Fred Olen Ray.
He also had story credits in The Boneyard Collection and Space Babes Meet the Monsters. His long association with independent film led to his being an executive producer on a number of films.
The most prominent was Fred Olen Ray's Supershark. The novella version of his novel Moon of Ice was a Nebula Award finalist and the novel length version won a Prometheus Award.
The novel carried endorsements from Robert A.
Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and William F.
Buckley, Jr.His other novels include Sliders (based on the television series), The Land Beyond Summer, four Doom novels with Dafydd ab Hugh, three Battlestar Galactica novels with actor Richard Hatch, and Anarquia with J.
Kent Hastings which sparked much discussion and review on various web sites.
He also starred in, and wrote, The Brain Leeches, directed by Fred Olen Ray. Linaweaver's 1995 story collaboration with Victor Koman, "The Light That Blinds", featured an occult battle between Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler.In 2004, he co-authored Worlds of Tomorrow with Forrest J Ackerman, a hardcover coffee table book featuring science fiction cover art from the Golden Age with full color reproduction and commentary from the authors.