Bryan Thomas Schmidt

Bryan Thomas Schmidt is an author and Hugo-nominated editor of adult and children’s speculative fiction. His debut novel, The Worker Prince, received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club’s Year’s Best Science Fiction Releases, and his latest novel, Shortcut (forthcoming), is being developed as a motion picture by Roserock Films.

His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and online, and include entries in The X-Files, Predator, and Decipher’s WARS, amongst others. As book editor for Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta’s WordFire Press, he edited books by Alan Dean Foster, Angie Fox, Tracy Hickman, Frank Herbert, Mike Resnick, Jean Rabe, and more. He was also the first editor on Andy Weir’s bestseller, The Martian.

His anthologies as editor include Infinite Stars, Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, Predator: If It Bleeds, Monster Hunter Files (co-edited by Larry Correia and based upon his New York Times bestselling Monster Hunter International novel series), Joe Ledger: Unstoppable, co-edited by Jonathan Maberry, based upon his New York Times bestselling novels, Decision Points, Shattered Shields with co-editor Jennifer Brozek, Mission: Tomorrow, and Galactic Games. He has several original screenplays making the rounds in Hollywood.

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