{{short description|American novelist}}

'''Stepan Chapman''' (May 27, 1951 — January 27, 2014) was an American writer of speculative fiction and fabulation. He is best known for the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel ''The Troika''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Locus Publications |url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/02/stepan-chapman-1951-2014/ |title=Locus Online News » Stepan Chapman (1951-2014) |publisher=Locusmag.com |date= |accessdate=2014-02-23}}</ref>

Chapman was born and raised in Chicago and then studied theatre at the University of Michigan. His first published work was a story in ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' in 1969. As a rule his work is more fable-like in tone and surreal than is common for that magazine. He also had several stories in Damon Knight's ''Orbit'' anthologies. From the late 1970s, he was primarily published in small literary magazines. A collection of his stories was published, titled ''Dossier''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020502023650/http://www.sfsite.com/05b/ds104.htm SFSite]</ref>

== Bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

* ''The Troika'' (The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1997). Published in a revised ebook edition in 2012.

=== Short story collections ===

* ''Dossier'' (Creative Arts Book Company, 2001)

=== Chapbooks ===

* ''Danger Music'' (The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1996) * ''Common Ectoids of Arizona'' (Lockout Press, 2001) * ''Life on Earth'' (Four-Sep Publications, 2003)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{isfdb name|id=Stepan_Chapman|name=Stepan Chapman}}

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