| Christopher Rowe | |
| Birth Date: | 25 December 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Columbia, Kentucky, US |
Christopher Rowe (born December 25, 1969[1]) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award.[2] [3]
Rowe's first professionally published short story was "Kin to Crows" (Realms of Fantasy, 1998).[4] His best-known story is "The Voluntary State" (Sci Fiction, 2004), which was nominated for multiple major awards. That story was followed by two sequels: "The Border State" (2017) and These Prisoning Hills (2022).[5]
His 2017 short-story collection Telling the Map received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly ("wild creativity, haunting imagery, and lyricism"), Kirkus Reviews (a "clutch of complex, persuasive visions of an alternate South"),[6] and Tor.com ("a stellar set of stories that mesh well together").[7]
He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He was married to fellow author Gwenda Bond, with whom he co-authored The Supernormal Sleuthing Service book series,[8] from 2004 to 2023.[9]
| width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes | |
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| Kin to crows | 1998 | Realms of Fantasy | ||||
| data-sort-value="voluntary state" | The Voluntary State | 2004 | Sci Fiction | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois) | ||
| data-sort-value="unveiling" | The unveiling | 2015 | Rowe, Christopher . January 2015 . The unveiling . Asimov's Science Fiction . 39 . 1 . 14–21. | |||
| data-sort-value="border state" | The Border State | 2017 | Sequel to "The Voluntary State" | |||
| Knowledgeable Creatures | 2019 | Web site: Knowledgeable Creatures . Christopher Rowe . Tor.com Original Fiction . 6 October 2023 . | The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (ed. Rich Horton) | |||
| These Prisoning Hills | 2022 | Novella; sequel to "The Voluntary State" and "The Border State" | ||||
| data-sort-value="navigating fox" | The Navigating Fox | 2023 | Novella; set in the same milieu as "Knowledgeable Creatures" |