Steven Savile
Steven Savile (born October 12, 1969, in Newcastle, England) is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm, Sweden. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.
Accomplishments and awards
Savile was a runner-up for the British Fantasy Award in 2000, short listed for the inaugural Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel, and was a Writers of the Future winner in 2002. With his novel Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar, Savile won the Best Young Adult Original Novel for the 2009 Scribe Awards presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
He has edited and co-edited numerous anthologies, including the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou, Michael Marshall Smith, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and others.
Savile also writes and edits Doctor Who stories for Big Finish with his work featuring in The Centenarian, Snapshots, Defining Patterns, The Ghosts of Christmas and The Quality of Leadership anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology Destination Prague, the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two Sláine novels for Black Flame, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied in to the universe of the British television show Primeval, for Titan Books.
Savile supports, London-based football club, Tottenham Hotspur.
Published works
Novels
- The Secret Life of Colors (2000)
- Laughing Boy's Shadow (2003 and 2007)
- London Macabre (forthcoming 2011 - Polish language original)
- Silver (AKA 'Silver: an Ogmios Adventure')
- The Black Chalice (2011)
- Hallowed Ground (co-written with David Niall Wilson) (2011)
- Gold (AKA 'Gold: an Ogmios Adventure')' (forthcoming 2011)
The Lay of Sláine Mac Roth
Novels featuring the Celtic warrior known as Sláine Mac Roth:
- Sláine the Exile (2006)
- Sláine the Defiler (2007)
Primeval related
Primeval TV series related novels:
Stargate SG-1 related
Stargate literature for the show Stargate SG-1 TV series related novels:
- Stargate SG-1: The Power Behind the Throne (forthcoming, May 2010)
Warhammer related
Books based in the Warhammer Fantasy mythos:
- Curse of the Necrarch (2008)
Warhammer Von Carstein Trilogy
- Inheritance (2006)
- Dominion (2006)
- Retribution (2007)
- Vampire Wars (2008), omnibus anthology of the trilogy
Torchwood related
Stories related to the Torchwood TV series:
Novellas
- Icarus Descending (2000)
- Houdini's Last Illusion (2004)
- Temple: Incarnations (2007)
- The Hollow Earth (2007) (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
- Monster Town/The Butcher of Box Hill - an Ace Double-style front-to-back novella co-written with Brian M. Logan under the pseudonym "Logan Savile" (Bad Moon Books, 2010)
- "Traitor's Heir" (2011) - first part of Traitor's Moon in the Moonland Diaries series[1]
Short stories
Collections
- Similar Monsters (2001)
- Angel Road (2004)
Doctor Who related
Doctor Who short stories written by Steven Savile:
Uncollected Short stories
- "The Horned Man" - appeared in the anthology Boondocks Fantasy
- "London on the Brink of Never" - appeared in the anthology Spells of the City
- "Dear Prudence" - appeared in the anthology Blood Lite
- "Mens Rea" - appeared in the anthology Aegri Somnia
- "Ghosts of Love" - first appeared in the anthology Touched By Wonder (A Thera Story) - reprinted in Worlds of Their Own, edited by James Lowder
- "Night of Falling Stars" - appeared in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (A Thera Story)
- "The Song Her Heart Sang" - appeared in the anthology The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (A Thera Story)
- "Idiot Hearts" - appeared in the anthology Poe's Progeny
- "A Madness of Ravens" - appeared in the anthology Daikaiju!3 (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
- "Lies of the Flesh" - appeared in the anthology Invasion!, a Warhammer Fantasy anthology
- "Death's Cold Kiss" - appeared in the anthology The Cold Hand of Betrayal
- "The Angel With The Sad Eyes" - appeared in the anthology Eulogies
- "Absence of Divinity" - appeared in the anthology Vivisections
- "Memories in Glass" - appeared in the anthology The Asylum
Graphic novels
- The Fragrance of You (2005)
Non-fiction
- Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction (2010) (non-fiction: essays on contemporary genre television)
As editor
- Redbrick Eden: Scaremongers 2 (1999)
- Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) (co-edited with Alethea Kontis)
- Black Gondolier and Other Stories (2003) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part one (co-edited with John Pelan)
- Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions (2004) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part two (co-edited with John Pelan)
- Short Trips: Destination Prague (2007) Doctor Who Short Trips Volume 20
References
External links
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October 12, 1969 |
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Newcastle, England |
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