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David F. Bischoff (December 15, 1951 – March 19, 2018) was an American science fiction and television writer.

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David Bischoff
Born	(1951-12-15)December 15, 1951 Washington, D.C., USA
Died	March 19, 2018(2018-03-19) (aged 66)[1] Eugene, Oregon, USA
Pen name	Mark Grant, Dave Bischoff , Dave F. Bischoff, Michael F. X. Milhaus
Occupation	Novelist writer educator
Genre	Science fiction, Fantasy

General background

Born in Washington D.C., Bischoff wrote science fiction books, short stories, and scripts for television. Though he began writing in the early 1970s, and had over 80 books published, Bischoff was best known for novelizations of popular movies and TV series including Aliens, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and WarGames.

Early career

Bischoff began writing science fiction, and reviews of the genre while studying at the University of Maryland. His first publications were at Thrust, a fanzine offering science fiction commentary and criticism. The editor, Doug Fratz, later turned Thrust into a trade magazine, where Bischoff was a regular contributor.[2]

His first novel, The Seeker (with Christopher Lampton) was published in 1976, and in 1978 Bischoff coauthored "Tin Woodman", a short story nominated for a Nebula Award in that year,[3] and later adapted into both a novel and TV episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Movies and television

Bischoff worked on various television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, where he coauthored the episodes "Tin Man" (with Dennis Putman Bailey) and "First Contact" (with Dennis Russell Bailey and Joe Menosky & Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller) (not to be confused with the film Star Trek: First Contact). He also wrote the Star Trek tie-in novel Grounded, which spent time on the bestseller list.

Other TV work included Dinosaucers (with Ted Pedersen) produced by DIC Entertainment. His interest in dinosaurs led him to write the second of 24 books in the Time Machine series, Search for Dinosaurs, which is actually about finding Archaeopteryx, the first bird.

In addition to some seventy-five original novels, Bischoff wrote tie-in novels for well-known movies and TV series such as Aliens, Alien Versus Predator, Farscape, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Space Precinct, SeaQuest DSV, and Jonny Quest. He also wrote show-business related nonfiction under a variety of pen names.

In 2000, The Washington Post called him the "greatest living wrestling writer" for his work as "Winchell Dredge" at Wild Rampage Wrestling magazine.[4]

Teaching

Bischoff taught creative writing at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania.

Selected bibliography

Novels

Fiction series

Short story collections

• Tripping the Dark Fantastic (2000)

Anthologies edited by David Bischoff

• Quest (1977)
• Strange Encounters (1977)

Short fiction

Death

Bischoff died on March 19, 2018. The cause was complications from liver disease, said his former wife, Martha Bayless.[6]

References

External links

• David Bischoff at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bibliography at SciFan
• Search David Bischoff manuscript holdings at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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