User:Phil Hunter/"Duncan Long"

Duncan Long (b. 1969 (?), Kansas) is an American writer / illustrator who also illustrates books and magazine articles by other authors..

Athough Long started his career writing and illustrating technical books, in the early 1990s he started illustrating other authors' books as well as doing artwork for magazines and an occasional CD album jacket.

Long has created over a thousand illustrations for presses including Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine (Dec. 2009, April/May 2010), HarperCollins, PS Publishing, Pocket Books (Robert Silverberg Dying Inside), Solomon Press, Paladin Press, Delta Press, American Media, Fort Ross, Lyons Press, and many small publishers and self-published authors.

A skilled graphic designer, Long also does design/layout work on books and occasionally even designs typefaces for projects he works on.

As a writer, Long has written four science fiction novels published by HarperCollins (Spider Worlds, Hiccups In Time, Lost and Found) and Avon Books (Antigrav Unlimited). The author also penned a nine-book action/adventure series The Nightstalkers (HarperCollins).

Some of Long's technical books are in the private libraries of the CIA, US Marines, FEMA, and other US agencies as well as the private library of at least one foreign embassy and the EPC (Emergency Planning, Canada). The FBI has apparently requested that firearms manuals be sent to their FTU (Firearms Training Unit) at Quantico. Long also wrote three manuals that were used in the International Correspondence Schools' gunsmithing and private detective courses.

Long's magazine articles on self-sufficiency and emergency procedures have appeared in the Journal of Civil Defense, American Survival Guide, Survive, Modern Survival Guide, and other magazines and journals.