Michael Reaves

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James Michael Reaves (14 September 1950 to 20 March 2023) was an American writer, born in San Bernardino, California, and also credited as J. Michael Reaves. He was active from 1973 to 2015 and wrote for television, novels, children's books and original fiction. He worked as a script writer and story editor on animated series of the 1980s and 1990s, including Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series, for which he won a Daytime Emmy in 1993 for outstanding writing in an animated program. His books include I, Alien (1978), Dragonworld (1979, with Byron Preiss), Darkworld Detective (1981) and Dome (1987, with Steve Perry), as well as several Star Wars novels. He often worked with collaborators, among them Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote InterWorld (2007), and his daughter Mallory Reaves. He co-edited Shadows Over Baker Street (2003).

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Books

• InterWorld (2007) · InterWorld Core Canon
• The Silver Dream (2013) · InterWorld Core Canon
• Eternity's Wheel (2015) · InterWorld Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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