Help with info on an obscure sci fi writer:

Rutledge Etheridge, whose last book was 'Brother John' about a 14 year old kid on a space colony planet, the kid was over 7 feet tall and won all his fights and got into a martial arts school and there were 5 books in that series.

The problem is that book was written 12 years ago and no followup and I was trying to track down the dude but no luck. The book was from Ace pubs, a well known sci fi house but they were bought out a couple of times and now seem to be associated with Penguin but in their list of authors, no such person turns up, as well as on google. All I can find are the books for sale on Amazon but practically nothing in the way of bio for the author.

My leading suspicion is he died shortly after that last book was written but have no proof.

I just was interested in tracking the guy down, no website for him or anything. Found one dude with that name born in 1921 but died in something like 1997 so he could not have been around for a book in 2001 I would think unless he wrote all 5 at the same time and they were parsed out by Ace.

Any ideas how I could find out what happened to this author?

Originally posted by sonhouse
Rutledge Etheridge, whose last book was 'Brother John' about a 14 year old kid on a space colony planet, the kid was over 7 feet tall and won all his fights and got into a martial arts school and there were 5 books in that series.

The problem is that book was written 12 years ago and no followup and I was trying to track down the dude but no luck. The ...[text shortened]... nd they were parsed out by Ace.

Any ideas how I could find out what happened to this author?

Originally posted by darvlay
Took me two seconds to google and find his twitter account:

https://twitter.com/SoLongThePath

So not only do you suck with computers but you can't use google either. 😛

Originally posted by sonhouse
Thanks

Originally posted by darvlay
You're welcome.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Most sci fi dudes have websites and it was notoriously absent in his case. I think twitter pretty much sucks with so limited a number of characters you can type. I guess that fits with the short attention span universe though.

I could basically only say hi and ask one question. Stupid system. And I know the founder is a billionaire, it's still stupit.

I need some help finding some obscure author. I think he wrote horror and some sci-fi, although he seemed to waffle to the point of boredom. I remember his name was something like Mr Ding. First name is Steve, I think.

Originally posted by lausey
I need some help finding some obscure author. I think he wrote horror and some sci-fi, although he seemed to waffle to the point of boredom. I remember his name was something like Mr Ding. First name is Steve, I think.

Originally posted by lausey
I need some help finding some obscure author. I think he wrote horror and some sci-fi, although he seemed to waffle to the point of boredom. I remember his name was something like Mr Ding. First name is Steve, I think.

Originally posted by mikelom
Steven Wan.... you're looking for.

-m. 😉

Originally posted by sonhouse
I never jumped on the twitwagon. Thanks anyway in spite of the insult. I don't get into every techno development just because it is there. I have spent half a lifetime on technologies you will never see in your ENTIRE life so don't start telling people how dumb they are till you know the whole story of where I have been technologically speaking.

Originally posted by Soothfast
Remember, kids: the first syllable in Twitter is TWIT.

Originally posted by lausey
I need some help finding some obscure author. I think he wrote horror and some sci-fi, although he seemed to waffle to the point of boredom. I remember his name was something like Mr Ding. First name is Steve, I think.

Originally posted by Great King Rat
With A K.

Archibald. King's original first name was Archibald. He chose Stephen instead because he wanted to remind people of his Saskatchewan roots.