Brad Linaweaver

(August 31, 1952 -- August 29, 2019)

Bradford Swain Linaweaver was an American fan and SF writer.

Linaweaver had original story credits on a number of films, including The Brain Leeches and Jack-O for Fred Olen Ray. He also had story credits in The Boneyard Collection and Space Babes Meet the Monsters.

The novella version of his novel Moon of Ice was a Nebula Award finalist and the novel length version won a Prometheus Award. He was a Libertarian, and the novel carried endorsements from Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and William F. Buckley, Jr.

In 2004, he co-authored Worlds of Tomorrow with Forrest J Ackerman, a hardcover coffee table book that spotlights SF cover art from the Golden Age with full color reproduction and commentary from the authors.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1989 -- Prometheus Award
• 1992 -- Phoenix Award
• 1998 -- Prometheus Award
• 2001 -- Fa-La-La-La-La-La-La-La Con
• 2005 -- DemiCon 16

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