COVILLE, Bruce

(1950-)

   US writer of sf and fantasy, almost exclusively juveniles. Of some interest are: Murder in Orbit (1987 UK; vt Space Station ICE-3 1987); My Teacher is an Alien (1989) and its sequels, My Teacher Fried my Brains (1991), My Teacher Glows in the Dark(1991) and My Teacher Flunked the Planet (1992); Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon \#2: The Dark Abyss * (1989), a tie; and the A.I. Gang sequence for children - Operation Sherlock (1986), Robot Trouble (1986) and Forever Begins Tomorrow (1986).

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   Other works: Eyes of the Tarot (1983); Spirits and Spells (1983); Waiting Spirits (1984); Amulet of Doom (1985); The Monster's Ring (1987); The Ghost in the Third Row (1987); The Ghost Wore Gray (1988); The Unicorn Treasury (anth 1988); How I Survived my Summer Vacation (1988); Some of my Best Friends are Monsters (1988); Monster of the Year (1989); Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (1991); The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (1991); Jennifer Murdley's Toad (1992); Space Brat (1992); Aliens Ate my Homework (1993); The Dragonslayers (1994); I Left my Sneakers in Dimension X (1994); Oddly Enough (coll 1994); Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters: Tales to Give you the Creeps (anth 1994); Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp your Mind (anth 1994); the Unicorn Chronicles sequence beginning with Into the Land of Unicorns (1994).