Win Scott Eckert is a novelist,
editor, essayist, and writer of short fiction. He is steeped in the works of famed
science fiction writer Philip José Farmer, particularly Farmer’s shared universe
literary-crossover Wold Newton cycle and the Lord Grandrith/Doc Caliban series.
He has a deep interest in studying fictional biographies, creating detailed chronologies
of fictional characters and universes, and exploring the metafictional connections
between seemingly unrelated works, which resulted in Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton Universe
(MonkeyBrain Books), a 2007 Locus Awards finalist, and the critically
acclaimed, encyclopedic Crossovers: A
Secret Chronology of the World 1 &
2 (Black Coat Press, 2010).
Eckert is also an expert on many of
the authors and characters who inspired Farmer—such as Edgar Rice Burroughs
(Tarzan, Pellucidar, John Carter of Mars, and more), the pulp heroes (Doc
Savage, The Shadow, The Avenger, etc.), Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
and Professor Moriarty, Ian Fleming’s James Bond, and Sax Rohmer’s Denis
Nayland Smith, Fu Manchu, and Sumuru—as well as other heroic characters whose
adventures Eckert has chronicled, including Zorro, Sexton Blake, the Phantom, Honey
West, the Scarlet Pimpernel, the Domino Lady, and the Green Hornet, all of
which can be found in the pages of anthologies from Moonstone Books, Meteor
House (The Worlds of Philip José Farmer),
Black Coat Press (Tales of the Shadowmen),
and Titan Books (Tales of the Wold Newton
Universe).
Eckert also served as an expert consultant on crossovers involving characters from pulp fiction and Victorian literature in a dispute regarding alleged similarities between the feature film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and an earlier screenplay entitled Cast of Characters.
An accomplished essayist, Eckert
contributed a new foreword the 2006 edition of Farmer’s well-known fictional
biography, Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
(University of Nebraska/Bison Books), as well as several forewords and
afterwords to Titan Books’ reissues of Farmer’s novels. As Executive Editor for
Meteor House, he played a key role in reissuing definitive editions of Farmer’s
fictional biography Doc Savage: His
Apocalyptic Life (2013), and Farmer’s authorized Burroughs novel, Tarzan
and the Dark Heart of Time (2018).
Eckert is the authorized legacy author of Farmer’s Patricia Wildman series (The Evil in
Pemberley House, The Scarlet Jaguar). His latest releases are an authorized Avenger book from Moonstone, Hunt the Avenger (2019); an authorized novel in the new Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe, Tarzan: Battle for Pellucidar (2020); and, as coauthor with Farmer, the fourth novel in Farmer's Secrets of the Nine series, The Monster on Hold (2021), furthering the titanic saga of Doc Caliban's battle against the dark manipulators who hold the secret to eternal life, the Nine.
Find him online at www.winscotteckert.com
and @woldnewton (Twitter).
