John Michael Sharkey (May 6, 1931 – September 28, 1992) was an American writer who published over eighty plays, many under pen names.
Sharkey was born in Chicago, Illinois, to John and Mary Sharkey. In the 1960s, he wrote articles for Playboy and edited the company magazine for Allstate Insurance. He began publishing science fiction stories in 1959 with "The Captain of His Soul", which appeared in Fantastic. Over his career, he published about fifty stories in science fiction magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction.
Sharkey wrote plays under his own name and four pseudonyms: Rick Abbot, Mark Chandler, Monk Ferris, and Mike Johnson.
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Writing
Contact / Jerry Norcriss (Kurzgeschichtenserie)
Arcturus Times Three (1961)
Big Baby (1962)
A Matter of Protocol (1962)
The Creature Inside (1963)
The Colony That Failed (1964)
Novels
Murder, Maestro, Please (1960)
German: Mord und Musik : Kriminalroman. Übersetzt von Friedrich A. Sommer. Signum Taschenbücher #149, 1963.
The Secret Martians (1960)
German: Die 15 Geiseln. Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman #355), 1962.
Death for Auld Lang Syne (1963)
Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. (1963, 1965, auch als The Programmed People, 2010)
German: Revolution um die Zukunft. Pabel (Utopia Zukunftsroman #547), 1967.
The Addams Family (novelisation of the television series, 1965)
It’s Magic, You Dope! (1962, 2009)
The Crispin Affair (1960, 2012)
Short stories
The Captain of His Soul (1959)
The Obvious Solution (1959)
The Arm of Enmord (1959)
Queen of the Green Sun (1959)
Bedside Monster (1959)
The Kink-Remover (1959)
Dolce Al Fine (1959)
Let X = Alligator (1959)
The Blackbird (1959)
Ship Ahoy! (1959)
Minor Detail (1959)
Multum in Parvo (1959)
The Man Who Was Pale (1959)
To Each His Own (1960)
Multum in Parvo Rides Again (1960)
Old Friends Are the Best (1960)
Doomsday Army (1960)
The Dope On Mars (1960)
The Business, As Usual (1960)
The Final Ingredient (1960)
German: Hexen-Einmaleins. In: Helmuth W. Mommers & Arnulf D. Krauß (Hrsg.): 21 Grusel Stories – Ein Menü aus Alpträumen. Heyne (Heyne Anthologien, Bd. 21), 1967.
Squeeze (1960)
Status Quaint (1960)
According to Plan (1961)
Plays
Here Lies Jeremy Troy (1965)
M is for Million (1971)
How Green Was My Brownie (1972)
Kiss or Make Up (1972)
Meanwhile, Back on the Couch (1973)
A Gentleman and a Scoundrel (1973)
Roomies (1974)
Spinoff (1974)
Who’s on First? (1975)
What a Spoil (1975, with Dave Reiser)
Saving Grace (1976)
Take a Number, Darling (1976)
The Creature Creeps! (1977)
Dream Lover (1977)
Hope for the Best (1977, with Dave Reiser)
Rich Is Better (1977)
The Murder Room (1977)
Pushover (1977, with Ken Easton)
Once Is Enough (1977)
The Clone People (as Mike Johnson) (1978)
Missing Link (1978)
Turnabout (1978, with Ken Easton)
Not the Count of Monte Cristo? (1978, with Dave Reiser)
Turkey in the Straw (1979)