David Gerrold - Author

CONvergence is pleased to welcome author David Gerrold as a Guest of Honor at CONvergence 2004.

David Gerrold started writing professionally in 1967. His first sale was the classic "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode of Star Trek. He would take advantage of his involvement in the show to write The World of Star Trek, the best-selling book about the birth of the astonishing Star Trek phenomenon. Within five years of beginning his writing career, he had published seven novels, two books about television production, three anthologies, and a short story collection. He was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards six times in four years.

Since 1967, he has published more than forty books. Several of his novels are considered classics, including The Man Who Folded Himself, When HARLIE Was One (the first science fiction novel to predict computer viruses and anti-virus software), and the four books of The War Against The Chtorr. Gerroldıs other book series include, Trackers, Dingillia, and Enemy Mine (with Barry B. Longyear).

David has written episodes for over a dozen different television series, including Star Trek, Star Trek Animated, Twilight Zone, Land of the Lost, Babylon 5, Sliders, Logan's Run, and Tales From The Darkside.

In 1995, he won the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards for The Martian Child, an autobiographical tale of his son's adoption.

Gerrold has also written the novel The Flying Sorcerers (1971) with fellow CONvergence 2004 Guest of Honor Larry Niven. For more inforamation on David Gerrold and his work, visit his personal web site at http://www.gerrold.com.