Andy Remic
| Andy Remic | |
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 Andy Remic | |
| Born | North Manchester |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Thrillers, science fiction and military science fiction |
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Andy Remic is a British author of thrillers, science fiction and military science fiction. His first three novels, Spiral (2003), Quake (2004) and Warhead (2005), were published by Orbit Books (a former division of Little, Brown & Co). His fourth novel, War Machine, was published in 2007 by Solaris Books. This was followed by BioHell, Hardcore and Cloneworld, also in the Combat K universe.
Born in North Manchester, he is married with two children. He is currently working as an English teacher. He occasionally visits science fiction conventions, as was seen at Novacon 37 where he did a reading from his new novel followed by Q&A, and was on a panel with Charles Stross, Eric Brown and Ian Watson.
Books
Remic's most recent novels are The Iron Wolves and The White Towers for Angry Robot Books, both published in 2014.
Remic is the author of the Combat-K series of military science fiction for Solaris Books - Biohell was out in February 2009, and since then Remic has published Hardcore, Cloneworld, Theme Planet and Toxicity.
He also wrote the Spiral series of novels for Orbit Books.
He created various fast-paced fantasy novels in the style of David Gemmell, for Angry Robot Books. These are the Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, beginning with Kell's Legend, Soul Stealers and the third in the series Vampire Warlords.
Film-making
Andy writes and occasionally acts in films for the UK-based independent film company Anarchy Films - www.anarchyfilms.co.uk. He has made film promos for the novels Kell's Legend and Hardcore, as well as a short film, Chemical Man, that has been accepted into several film festivals internationally. He recently finished directing his first feature film, Impurity. You can read more about Impurity at www.impuritythemovie.com
Computer games
Andy Remic wrote a number of computer games, including several text adventures, for the ZX Spectrum in the 1980s and early 1990s. Some of these appeared on the cover-mounted cassettes that accompanied Crash magazine, and others were sold by mail order. Many of his games were produced under the name Psychedelic Hedgehog Software.
Remic revisited his Spectrum past in 2009 when he created a graphical text adventure to accompany his new novel, Biohell.
Publishing
In 2011, Andy started his own ebook publishing company, Anarchy Books, dealing with digital "projects" that contain novels, albums, video games and films, so that entertainment junkies can "pick and mix" their experience.
Bibliography
Novels include:
- Spiral:
- Spiral (Orbit, 2003, ISBN 1841491470)
- Quake (Orbit, 2004, ISBN 1841492043)
- Warhead (Orbit, 2005, ISBN 1841491748)
- Combat K:
- War Machine (Solaris, 2007, ISBN 1844166163)
- BioHell (Solaris, 2009, ISBN 1844166503)
- Hardcore (Solaris, 2010, ISBN 1844167933)
- Cloneworld (Solaris, 2011, ISBN 1906735573)
- Clockwork Vampire Chronicles (Omnibus, Angry Robot, 2012, ISBN 085766204X):
- Kell's Legend (Angry Robot, 2010, ISBN 0857660160)
- Soul Stealers (Angry Robot, 2010, ISBN 0857660667)
- Vampire Warlords (Angry Robot, 2011, ISBN 0857661051)
- Rage of Kings:
- The Iron Wolves (Angry Robot, 2014, ISBN 0857663542)
- The White Towers (Angry Robot, 2014, ISBN 0857663577)
- Other:
- Serial Killers Incorporated (Anarchy Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908328-00-7)
- SIM (Anarchy Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-908328-08-3)
- Theme Planet (Solaris Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-90799-211-7)
- Toxicity (Solaris Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-78108-003-0)
- Anthologies:
- Legends 2: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell (NewCon Press, 2015, ASIN B00YMDLVQ8)
External links
- Official website
- Anarchy Books
- Andy Remic at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Andy Remic at the Internet Movie Database
- Andy Remic ZX-Spectrum games at WOS
- Andy Remic interview at SFX magazine
- Andy Remic interview at Punktalk