Into the Nebula

Thomas Eugene DeWeese was born in Rochester, Indiana on January 31, 1934. He received an associate degree in electronics from Valparaiso Technical Institute in 1953. He worked for General Motors' Delco Electronics Division as a technician from 1954 to 1959 and as a technical writer from 1959 to 1974. Afterwards, he became a full-time freelance writer.

His first novels, The Invisibility Affair and The Mind-Twisters Affair were both published in 1967 and were part of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. series written under the pseudonym Thomas Stratton with Buck Coulson. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Gene DeWeese and Jean DeWeese. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 40 books including novels in the Star Trek, Ravenloft, Dinotopia, and Amazing Stories series. His young adult novel The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf was made into a television movie of the same name. He died from Lewy body dementia on March 19, 2012.

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