John M. Faucette
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African American
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science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
author. He published 5 novels (four of them in the 1960s) and one short story. At the time of his death he had seven unpublished novels in various states of completion. Two of his novels; Crown of Infinity and Age of Ruin, were published in the popular Ace Doubles series.
Faucette was born and raised in Harlem
Harlem
Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...
and lived there for twenty-six years. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science
Bronx High School of Science
The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized New York City public high school often considered the premier science magnet school in the United States. Founded in 1938, it is now located in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx...
and majored in chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn before studying filmmaking, screenplay, and short story writing at New York University's
New York University
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School of Continuing Education.
Faucette died of a heart attack
Myocardial infarction
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in 2003.
Published
- Crown of Infinity (1968)
- Siege of Earth (1971)
- The Warriors of Terra (Belmont Books, 1970)
- The Age of Ruin (1968)
- Disco Hustle (unknown)
- The Secret - AIM Magazine (1999)
- Messenger of God - AIM Magazine (2001)
- Pets - Artemis Magazine (2001)
- Black Science Fiction (2002) Publisher: Macro Publishing Group (May 15, 2002) ISBN 0-7414-1004-4, 437 pages.
Unpublished
- Earth Will be Avenged
- The Gypsy Dick
- The Tan Argus III Interstellar Chess Tournament
- Sex Death
- Tell My People
- Homo Cosmos
- The Ghettoes of Hell