Les Martin

Lester Martin Schulman (born September 3, 1934), who writes as Les Martin,^[1] is an American writer of speculative fiction media tie-ins, particularly within the Blade Runner, Frankenstein, Indiana Jones, and The X-Files fiction series.

Les Martin
Born	(1934-09-03) September 3, 1934 (age 90) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Period	1971 – present

Education and career

Schulman received a bachelor of arts degree from Antioch College in 1955.^[2] He was an editor for Popular Library (1963–1965), Bantam Books (1966–1967), and Dell Publishing from 1969.^[2]

Select bibliography

Indiana Jones

• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – young-adult novelization of the 1984 film
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – young-adult novelization of the 1989 film

Young Indiana Jones

Young-adult novels set in the Young Indiana Jones universe

• Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (1990)^[3]
• Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City (1990)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril (1991)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge (1991)
• Field of Death (1992)
• Trek of Doom (1992)
• Prisoner of War (1993)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure (1993)

X-Files

• X Marks the Spot (1995) – novelization of the X-Files pilot episode from 1993
• Darkness Falls (1995) – novelization of the first season X-Files episode "Darkness Falls" from 1994
• Tiger, Tiger (1996) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "Fearful Symmetry" from 1995
• Humbug (1996) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "Humbug" from 1995
• Fear (1996) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "Blood" from 1994.^[4]
• E. B. E. (1996) – novelization of the first season X-Files episode "E.B.E." from 1994^[5]
• Die, Bug, Die! (1997) – novelization of the third season X-Files episode "War of the Coprophages" from 1996^[6]
• Ghost in the Machine – novelization of the first season X-Files episode "Ghost in the Machine" from 1993
• Fresh Bones (1997) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "Fresh Bones" from 1995
• The Host (1997) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "The Host" from 1994
• Quarantine (1999) – novelization of the second season X-Files episode "F. Emasculata" from 1995^[7]

Other novelizations

• Blade Runner (1982) – photo-illustrated novelization based on the screenplay for the 1982 film
• The Bride: A Tale of Love and Doom (1985) – novelization of the 1985 film The Bride
• The Shadow (1994) – novelization of the 1994 film^[8]

Anthologies

All anthologies were edited under the name L. M. Schulman:

• Come Out the Wilderness (1965)
• Winners and Losers: An Anthology of Great Sports Fiction (1968)
• The Loners: Short Stories About the Young and Alienated (1970)^[9]
• The Cracked Looking Glass: Stories of Other Realities (1971)
• Travelers: Stories of Americans Abroad (1972)
• A Woman's Place: An Anthology of Short Stories (1974)
• Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age" (1978)
• The Random House of Sports Stories (1990), illustrated by Thomas B. Allen^[10]
• Shakespeare's Life and World (2016), with Katherine Duncan-Jones