Geoffrey Thorne

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Geoffrey Thorne
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Born	(1970-01-20) January 20, 1970
Nationality	American
Occupation	Writer, Actor
Website	http://geoffreythorne.com/

Geoffrey Thorne {born January 20, 1970} is an American screenwriter, novelist and actor.

Thorne was born in the United States. After a successful career as a television actor including portraying police officer Wilson Sweet in the television series In the Heat of the Night from 1989 to 1994, Thorne began writing professionally, winning Second Prize in Simon & Schuster's sixth annual Strange New Worlds anthology with his story "The Soft Room." He went on to publish more stories in several media tie-in anthologies as well as the Star Trek: Titan novel Sword of Damocles.

Other stories he has written include contributions to Flying Pen Press's anthology Space Grunts, MV Media's Steamfunk anthology, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

As a screenwriter, Thorne has worked with Kickstart Entertainment to develop two of their properties, Of Bitter Souls and Sword of Dracula, for television. He was a writer for season 9 of the United States network's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, season 2 of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, seasons 3,4 and 5 of TNT's Leverage. In 2014 Lion Forge Entertainment and NBC-Universal tapped Thorne to reboot the global fan favorite TV series, KNIGHT RIDER in comic book form. Thorne is also the co-creator of Phantom Canyon, an audio drama from Pendant Productions.

Thorne is also a co-founder and writing partner of GENRE 19, a studio he formed with artist Todd Harris in 2008.

Works

Star Trek

• Strange New Worlds VI (June 2003)
  • "The Soft Room"
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change (September 2003)
  • "Chiaroscuro"
• Strange New Worlds 8 (July 2005)
  • "Concurrence"
• Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores (November 2005)
  • "Or the Tiger"

Novels

• Star Trek: Titan: Sword of Damocles (November 2007)
• Winter of the Wild Hunt (October 2010)
• Better Angels (February 2012)
• Galatea's Cross (December 2012)

Comics

• The Red Line (comic book miniseries, Ludovico Technique)
• Caffeine Dreams #2 (fantasy story, DWAP Productions)
• Honor Brigade (Spinner Rack Comics, 2009)
• Antala (EZD Productions, 2009)
• Prodigal: Egg of First Light (Ape Entertainment, 2010)
• Dark Horse Presents: Journeymen (Dark Horse Comics, 2013)
• Prodigal: Remastered (Trillbent.com, 2013)
• Knight Rider (Lion Forge Comics, 2013)

Anthologies

• The Adventures of Vale & Mist Phobos Books)
  • Free Men on a Dyson Sphere
• Writers of the Future XXII (finalist, Galaxy Press)
  • Red/Shift
• The Adventures of Vale & Mist Phobos Books)
  • Baal Breakers
• Triangulation: End of Time (Parsec Ink)
  • Eshu & The Anthropic Principle
• Astonishing Adventures Magazine #1 (AAM Publishing, 2008)
  • The 3rd Option
• Barren Worlds (Hadley Rille Books, 2008)
  • Antiope in Black
• Astonishing Adventures Magazine #3 (AAM Publishing, 2008)
  • The Dame Wore a Tesseract
• POW!erful Tales (Peryton Publishing, 2009)
  • The Lingering Grief of Twilight
• Full Throttle Space Tales: Space Grunts (Flying Pen Press, 2009)
  • Truth Metric
• Words to Music (Michael Wells, 2011)
  • Thanks to Captain Go
• Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology (MVmedia, LLC, 2011)
  • Sekadi's Koan
• Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Dell Publishing, 2013)
  • The Playlist
• Steamfunk (MVMedia LLC, 2013)
  • The Tunnel @ the End of the Light
• Pangaea (Crazy 8 Press, 2015)
  • Polo's Finger

Collections

• Geoffrey Thorne's Dreamnasium The Winterman Project, 2010)
• The Grim Arcana The Winterman Project, 2010)
  • The Price of Salt
  • The Cost of Opening
  • Fixing Mr. Styx
• Fringe Space The Winterman Project, 2013)
  • Truth Metric
  • Thanks to Captain Go"
  • Fina Silento

Audio Dramas

• Phantom Canyon (Pendant Productions, 2014)

Filmography

• The Rivals (screen story for Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Geoffrey Thorne's The Dark (webisode series)
• Skeleton Crew (television series, development, JETIX Entertainment)
• Rogo & the Shreever (film animated, Coffeehouse Films)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (television series, Wolf Films)
• Leverage Season 3 (television series, Electric Entertainment)
• Leverage Season 4 (television series, Electric Entertainment)
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (television series, Cartoon Network)
• Leverage Season 5 (television series, Electric Entertainment)
• Ben 10: Omniverse (television series, Cartoon Network)
• The Librarians Season 1 (television series, Electric Entertainment)
• Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors (television series, Disney XD)
• The Librarians Season 2 (television series, Electric Entertainment)

External links

• Geoffrey Thorne (screenwriter) at the Internet Movie Database
• Geoffrey Thorne (actor) at the Internet Movie Database
• Geoffrey Thorne at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• In the Heat of the Night Fan Club (Facebook)
• In the Heat of the Night Fan Club (Official ITHOTN Fan Source)