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Douglas Preston

Preston, Douglas Jerome

May 20, 1956 (age 69)

Birth place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

26 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
August 1988 47 Essay Letters Home Omni, August 1988
October 1988 26 Essay Explorations: Fossil Wars Omni, October 1988
January 1989 31 Essay Explorations: Potluck Omni, January 1989
April 1995 27 Review Relic Locus, #411 April 1995
July 1995 70 Review Relic Fangoria, July 1995
March 1996 29 Review Mount Dragon Locus, #422 March 1996
May 1996 57 Review Mount Dragon Science Fiction Chronicle, #189 May/June 1996
July 1997 31 Review Reliquary Locus, #438 July 1997
July 1997 58 Review Reliquary Fangoria, July 1997
September 1997 85 Review Reliquary Dragon Magazine, September 1997
October 1997 45 Review Reliquary Science Fiction Chronicle, #193 October 1997
October 1998 62 Review Riptide Locus, #453 October 1998
October 1998 53|53.11 Review Riptide Science Fiction Chronicle, #199 Oct-November 1998
December 1998 Review Riptide SF Site, December 1998
April 2002 140 Review The Ice Limit Asimov's Science Fiction, April 2002
August 2002 39 Review The Cabinet of Curiosities Science Fiction Chronicle, #227 August 2002
June 2004 101 Review The Codex Cemetery Dance, #49
February 2006 20 Interview From Museum to Manuscript: An Interview with Douglas Preston The Wicked Karnival, #6
January 2008 64 Review Blasphemy Noctem Aeternus, January 2008
April 2012 103 Review Fever Dream Cemetery Dance, #66, 2012
April 2012 105 Review Gideon's Sword Cemetery Dance, #66, 2012
September 2019 24 Interview Inside the List (The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 2019) The New York Times Book Review, September 8, 2019
May 2020 17 Essay Going Viral The New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2020
May 2020 17|17.1 Review The End of October The New York Times Book Review, May 31, 2020
May 2024 199 Review Extinction Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May-June 2024
July 2024 Review Extinction ParSec, Summer 2024

46 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1995 Novel Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
1996 Novel Mount Dragon Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
1996 Novel The Relic Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
1997 Novel Reliquary Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
1998 Novel Riptide Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
1999 Novel Thunderhead Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2000 Novel The Ice Limit Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2002 Novel The Cabinet of Curiosities Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2003 Novel Still Life with Crows Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2003 Novel The Codex Douglas Preston
2004 Novel Brimstone Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2005 Novel Dance of Death Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2005 Novel Tyrannosaur Canyon Douglas Preston
2006 Novel The Book of the Dead Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2007 Novel The Wheel of Darkness Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2008 Novel Blasphemy Douglas Preston
2008 Nonfiction The Monster of Florence Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi
2009 Novel Cemetery Dance Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2010 Novel Fever Dream Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2010 Novel Impact Douglas Preston
2011 Novel Cold Vengeance Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2011 Novel Gideon's Sword Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2012 Novel Gideon's Corpse Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2012 Novel Two Graves Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2013 Novel White Fire Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2014 Novel Blue Labyrinth Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2014 Novel The Kraken Project Douglas Preston
2014 Novel The Lost Island Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2015 Novel Crimson Shore Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2016 Novel Beyond the Ice Limit Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2016 Novel The Obsidian Chamber Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2017 Chapbook Gone Fishing Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2018 Novel City of Endless Night Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2018 Novel The Pharaoh Key Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2018 Novel Verses for the Dead Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2019 Novel Old Bones Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2020 Novel Crooked River Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2021 Novel Bloodless Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2021 Novel The Scorpion's Tail Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2022 Novel Diablo Mesa Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2023 Novel Dead Mountain Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2023 Novel The Cabinet of Dr. Leng Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2024 Novel Angel of Vengeance Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
2024 Novel Extinction Douglas Preston
2025 Novel Badlands Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston
2026 Novel The Beginning Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston

Initially working for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA, as a writer, editor, and manager of publications (his history of the museum, "Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History" was edited by Lincoln Child), he grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and has studied various disciplines at Pomona College in Claremont, California, USA. Brother of Richard Preston.
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