Scott Baker (writer)

Scott MacMartin Baker (born September 29, 1947 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer.

His first novel, Symbiote's Crown, is "a slyly intelligent though uneasily metaphysical Space Opera" according to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The French edition won a Prix Apollo Award in 1982. In addition, he won the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for his short story "Still Life with Scorpion".