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Mel Odom


USA flag (b.1957)

aka James Axler, Jordan Gray, Don Pendleton

Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.
 

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Horror, Western, Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, Children's Fiction
 
New Books
December 2022

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Radio Rita
 
January 2023

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Scorpion's Bane
(Shadowrun)
Series
Time Police (with Warren C Norwood)
   2. Trapped! (1988)
   3. Stranded! (1989)
   4. Refugee (1989)
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Executioner
   123. War Born (1989)
   126. Death Wind (1989)
   131. Ice Wolf (1989)
   135. Devil Force (1990)
   140. Wild Card (1990)
   147. Payback Game (1991)
   154. Night Hit (1991)
   160. Storm Warning (1992)
   161. Eye of the Storm (1992)
   172. Fast Strike (1993)
   182. Lethal Agent (1994)
   188. War Paint (1994)
   194. Deadly Contest (1995)
   196. Triburst (1995)
   197. Armed Force (1995)
   213. Blood Harvest (1996)
   238. Crimson Tide (1998)
   296. Nuclear Game (2003)
   297. Deadly Pursuit (2003)
   298. Final Play (2003)
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Mack Bolan
   21. Siege (1990)
   23. Evil Kingdom (1991)
   32. Battle Force (1993)
   37. Inferno (1994)
   40. Killpoint (1995)
   48. Dead Center (1996)
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Stony Man
   2. Stony Man II (1991)
   3. Stony Man III (1991)
   5. Stony Man V (1992)
   10. Secret Arsenal (1994)
   20. Terms of Survival (1995)
   30. Virtual Peril (1997)
   32. Law of Last Resort (1997)
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Deathlands
   35. Bitter Fruit (1996)
   38. The Mars Arena (1997)
   42. Way of the Wolf (1998)
   45. Starfall (1999)
   136. Trade War (2020)
   140. Sea Hag (2021)
   145. Kraken (2022)
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Outlanders
   9. Night Eternal (1999) (with Mark Ellis)
   12. Wreath of Fire (2000)
   18. Sargasso Plunder (2001)
   20. Prodigal Chalice (2002)
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Hunter's League
   1. Hunter's League (2005)
     aka A Conspiracy Revealed
   2. The Mystery Unravels (2005)
   3. The Secret Explodes (2005)
   4. His Legacy Avenged (2006) (with Dave Seeley)
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NCIS
   1. Paid in Blood (2006)
   2. Blood Evidence (2007)
   3. Blood Lines (2008)
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Hellgate London
   1. Exodus (2007)
   2. Goetia (2008)
   3. Covenant (2008)
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Blackpool Mystery (as by Jordan Gray)
   1. Stolen (2010)
   2. Vanished (2010)
   3. Submerged (2011)
   4. Unearthed (2011)
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Identity Trilogy
   1. Golem (2011)
   2. Mimic (2012)
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Makaum War
   1. Master Sergeant (2015)
   2. Guerilla (2015)
   3. Warlord (2020)
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Novels
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Omnibus
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Collections
   Global Star (2012) (with RA Jones and Michael Vance)
   The Spider: Extreme Prejudice (2013)
   Bandit Territory (2019) (with Paul Bishop, Ben Boulden, Jeremy K Brown, Jason Chirevas, Wayne D Dundee, Hock Hochheim, Nicole Nelson-Hicks and Scott Dennis Parker)
   Ground Zero: Atomic Gods and Monsters (2020) (with Terry Alexander, Edward County, Jeff Deischer, Sebastien Gallois, Robert Hudson Jr, Edward Lee Love, Mark Marderosian, Arthur Sippo and Mary Ann Vaupel)
   Ground Zero: Atomic Gods and Monsters volume 1 (2021) (with Terry Alexander, Edward County, Jeff Deischer, Sebastien Gallois, Robert Jr Hudson, Mark Marderosian, Arthur Sippo and Mary Ann Vaupel)
   Radio Rita (2022) (with Teel James Glenn, Samantha Lienhard and Gene Moyers)
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Chapbooks
   Dreamer (1984)
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Series contributed to
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BattleTech : MechWarrior (with Blaine Lee Pardoe)
   2. Roar of Honor (1999)
   3. By Blood Betrayed (1999)
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Angel
   3. Redemption (2000)
   9. Bruja (2001)
   12. Image (2002)
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Roswell
   4. Shades (2002)
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Dead Man
   19. Crucible of Fire (2013)
   The Dead Man Vol 7 (omnibus) (2014) (with Lee Goldberg, Stella Green, Stant Litore and William Rabkin)
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Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal
   1. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 1 (2015) (with Derrick Ferguson, Gary Phillips and Andrew Salmon)
   2. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 2 (2017) (with Michael A Black, Milton Davis and Derrick Ferguson)
   3. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 3 (2018) (with Terry Alexander and R A Jones)
   4. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 4 (2020) (with Terry Alexander, Derrick Ferguson and Ron Fortier)
   5. Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 5 (2022) (with Thomas McNulty, Michael Panush and Gary Phillips)
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Non fiction
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Anthologies containing stories by Mel Odom
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Short stories
Predator's Moon (1994)
The Colossus of Mahrass [short story] (2001)


Mel Odom recommends
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The Finest Challenge (2006)
(Finest Trilogy, book 3)
Jean Rabe
"Enjoyably entertaining... It is as if C.S. Lewis had decided to write Black Beauty as a fantasy."

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