Warren Norwood

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Warren Carl Norwood (August 21, 1945 – June 3, 2005) was an American science fiction novelist, teacher, and musician.

Norwood was a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and was the author of 14 science fiction novels, most of them written during the 1980s.

When not writing, he was a longtime employee of Craig's Music in Weatherford, Texas. Norwood also taught writing at Weatherford College and Tarrant County College.

Military service and citations[]

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Warren received the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Army Commendation Medal.

Legacy[]

Upon his untimely death, his manuscripts and papers, consisting of 53 boxes of material, were transferred to the University of North Texas Special Collections department in Denton.^[1]

Death[]

Norwood died of liver disease and kidney failure in Weatherford, Texas on Friday, June 3, 2005 at the age of 59. He was survived by his wife Gigi Gephardt.

Bibliography[]

• 1982 An Image of Voices
• 1983 Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets
• 1983 Flexing the Warp
• 1983 The Seren Cenacles (with )
• 1984 Midway Between
• 1984 Planet of Flowers
• 1985 Polar Fleet
• 1986 Final Command
• 1987 Shudderchild
• 1988 Trapped
• 1988 True Jaguar
• 1988 Vanished
• 1989 Stranded
• 1989 Refugee (unpublished; there is an unedited draft of this novel at University of North Texas in Special Collections)

Series[]

The Double-Spiral War[]

• Midway Between
• Polar Fleet
• Final Command

Time Police[]

• Vanished
• Trapped
• Stranded
• Refugee

The Windhover Tapes[]

• An Image of Voices
• Flexing the Warp
• Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets
• Planet of Flowers

References[]

External links[]

• Warren Norwood at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database