REEVES-STEVENS, Garfield

(1953-)

   Canadian writer who began writing works of genre interest with Bloodshift (1981), a vampire tale which - not unusually for thisauthor - intermixes sf, fantasy and horror. A professional killer is hired by establishment vampiresto find a renegade female vampire who is interfering with the sf-like Phoenix Project, throughwhich it is hoped to eliminate the human race entirely. Other novels combining similar genremixes include Dreamland (1985),Children of the Shroud (1989), Nighteyes (1989 US), whichadditionally injects conspiracy-talk fromthe UFO sub-genre,and Dark Matter(1990 US). GR-S's Star Trek TIES are more conventional sf,andinclude Star Trek: Memory Prime* (1988US),Star Trek: Prime Directive* (1990 US),Star Trek: Federation* (1994 US) with his wife,JudithReeves-Stevens,and The Making of Star Trek: Deep SpaceNine (1994 US), also with Judith Reeves-Stevens.

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   Other works: the Chronicles of Galen Sword, a fantasy sequence with JudithReeves-Stevens comprising Shifter (1990) andNightfeeder (1991); an Alien Nation tie:The Day of Descent*(1993).