David F. Bischoff is an American

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 science fiction and television writer.

General Background

Born in Washington D.C. and now living in Eugene

Eugene, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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, Bischoff writes science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he has been writing since the early 1970s, and has had over 80 books published, Bischoff is best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including the Aliens

Aliens (film)

Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton...

, Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American horror comedy film, and the sequel to Gremlins . It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S. Haas, with creature designs by Rick Baker...

, Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...

, and WarGames

WarGames

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War suspense/science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy....

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Early career

Bischoff began writing science fiction, and reviews of the genre while studying at the University of Maryland. His first publications were at a Thrust

Thrust (science fiction magazine)

Thrust was published from 1973-1991. It started off as a Fanzine by Doug Fratz Steven L. Goldstein at the University of Maryland until 1976. In 1978, Thrust became a trade magazine....

 , a Fanzine

Fanzine

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 offering science fiction commentray and criticism. The editor , Doug Fratz , later turned Thrust

Thrust (science fiction magazine)

Thrust was published from 1973-1991. It started off as a Fanzine by Doug Fratz Steven L. Goldstein at the University of Maryland until 1976. In 1978, Thrust became a trade magazine....

 into a trade magazine, where Bischoff was a regular contributor.

His first novel, The Seeker was published in 1976, and in 1978 Bischoff wrote Tin Woodman, a notable short story nominated for a Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

 in that year, and later adapted into both a novel and TV episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...

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Movies and Television

Bischoff has worked on various television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...

, where he wrote the episodes "Tin Man" and "First Contact" (not to be confused with the Star Trek movie First Contact). He also wrote the Star Trek tie-in novel Grounded, which spent time on the bestseller list.

Other TV work included Dinosaucers

Dinosaucers

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(with Ted Pedersen) produced by DIC Entertainment

DiC Entertainment

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. His interest in dinosaurs led him to write the second of 24 books in the Time Machine series, Search for Dinosaurs, which is actually about finding Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx

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, the first bird

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In addition to some seventy-five original novels, Bischoff has written tie-in novels for well-known movies and TV series such as Aliens, Alien Versus Predator, Farscape

Farscape

Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...

, Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American horror comedy film, and the sequel to Gremlins . It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S. Haas, with creature designs by Rick Baker...

, Space Precinct

Space Precinct

Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in Britain, and in syndication in North America on the SyFy Channel....

, SeaQuest DSV

SeaQuest DSV

seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...

, and Jonny Quest

Jonny Quest

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. He has also written show-business related nonfiction under a variety of pen names.

Teaching

Bischoff teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University

Seton Hill University

Seton Hill University is a small Catholic liberal arts university of about 2100 students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Formerly a women's college, it became a coeducational university in 2002....

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, in an innovative low-residency

Low-residency program

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 Master's degree

Master's degree

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 program in Writing Popular Fiction.

Novels

• The Seeker (novel) (1976)
• The Phantom of the Opera (novel) (1977)
• Forbidden World (novel) (1978)
• Tin Woodman (novel)
  Tin Woodman (novel)
  Tin Woodman is a science fiction novel written by Dennis Russell Bailey and David Bischoff. It was first published in 1979. The story, about a psychic who makes contact with a sentient spacecraft, was adapted into a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode.-Plot summary:A young psychic boy is taken...
  
  (1979) with Dennis Russell Bailey
• Star Fall (1980)
• The Selkie (1982)
• Mandala (novel) (1983)
• Wargames (novel) (1983)
• The Crunch Bunch (1985)
• A Personal Demon (1985)
• The Manhattan Project (novel)(1986)
• The Blob (novel) (1989)
• The Judas Cross (1994)
• Hackers (novel) (1995)
• Philip K. Dick High (2000)
• The Diplomatic Touch (2001)

Fiction Series

Aliens

Aliens (novel series)

The Aliens novels are an extension of the Alien franchise. Up until 1998, the novels were published by Bantam Books and were all adaptations of various comics previously published by Dark Horse Comics...

• Aliens Omnibus Volume 2 (1996)
• Genocide (1994)

Aliens vs. Predator

Aliens vs. Predator (novel series)

The Aliens vs. Predator novel series is a trilogy of novels that belong to the fictional crossover franchise of Aliens vs. Predator, based on the original Aliens vs...

• Aliens vs Predator Omnibus (1995)
• Hunter's Planet (1994)

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Bill, the Galactic Hero

Bill, the Galactic Hero is a satirical science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, first published in 1965.Harrison reports having been approached by a Vietnam veteran who described Bill as "the only book that's true about the military."...

• Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Tasteless Pleasure (1991)
• Bill, the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Ten Thousand Bars (1991)

Daniel M. Pinkwater's Melvinge of the Megaverse

• Night of the Living Shark! (1991)

Dr. Dimension (science fiction series)

• Dr. Dimension (1993) with John DeChancie
• Masters of Spacetime (1994)

Dragonstar (science fiction series)

Dragonstar (science fiction series)

The Dragonstar novels are a science fiction series by David Bischoff and Thomas F. Monteleone that focuses on a race of evolved dinosaurs with spacefaring technology. The individual books in the series are Dragonstar , Day of the Dragonstar , Night of the Dragonstar , and Dragonstar Destiny...

• Dragonstar (novel) (1980) nominated for the AnLab Award in 1982 for best Serial
• Day of the Dragonstar (1983)
• Night of the Dragonstar (1985)
• Dragonstar Destiny (1989)

Farscape

Farscape

Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...

• Ship of Ghosts (2001)

Gaming Magi

• The Destiny Dice (1985)
• Wraith Board (1985)
• The Unicorn Gambit (1986)

Gremlins

Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature—called a Mogwai—as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. It was followed by a sequel,...

• The New Batch (1988)

Mutants Amok

• Mutants Amok (1991)
• Mutant Hell (1991)
• Rebel Attack (1991)
• Holocaust Horror (1991)

Nightworld (science fiction series)

• Nightworld (science fiction novel) (1979)
• Vampires of Nightworld (1981)

SeaQuest DSV

SeaQuest DSV

seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It originally aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future", seaQuest mixes high drama with realistic scientific fiction...

• seaQuest DSV: The Ancient (1994)

Space Precinct

Space Precinct

Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in Britain, and in syndication in North America on the SyFy Channel....

• The Deity-Father (1995)
• Demon Wing (1995)
• Alien Island (1996)

Star Fall

• Star Fall (1980)
• Star Spring (1982)

Star Hounds

• The Infinite Battle (1985)
• Galactic Warriors (1985)
• The Macrocosmic Conflict (1986)