Christopher Rowley Explained

Christopher Rowley
Birth Place:Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation:Writer

Christopher Rowley (born 1948) is an American writer specializing in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He is also a former journalist and television screenwriter.

Christopher Rowley was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to an American mother and an English father. Educated primarily at Brentwood School, in Essex, England, he became a London-based journalist in the 1970s. In 1977 he moved to New York City, and now lives in upstate New York's Hudson Valley.

Rowley's first science fiction novel was The War for Eternity, published in 1983, which won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel.[1] The War for Eternity led to three further novels set in the same future: The Black Ship, The Founder, and To a Highland Nation. His novel Starhammer has been cited by computer programmer Jason Jones as an important literary influence in the creation of the Halo video game series by Bungie. Starhammer was followed by The Vang: The Military Form and The Vang: The Battlemaster to form a loosely connected trilogy (all published by Ballantine Books) spanning several thousand years and involving different sets of characters in each book.

In the 1990s, Rowley switched to the fantasy genre with the success of his first novel for Roc Books, Bazil Broketail. This novel was set on the imaginary world Ryetelth and involved the adventures of battledragons and the boys that care for them in the service of the legions of the nine cities of the Argonath. Bazil Broketail's adventures continued with Sword for a Dragon, Dragons of War, Battledragon, A Dragon at World's End, Dragons of Argonath, and Dragon Ultimate. The Ryetelth novels also include a tangential story, told in The Wizard and the Floating City, that interrupted the sequence of Bazil Broketail novels and introduced new characters and a broadening of the conceptual framework of the entire series. In the 1980s and 1990s he also co-wrote two television animated series by Robert Mandell, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers and Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.

After the conclusion of the Bazil Broketail series, he produced the Books of Arna, a trilogy set on Arna, a world colonized by humans in the far future. This series began with The Ancient Enemy, continued with The Shasht War, and concluded with Doom's Break. In February 2009, Rowley's first illustrated novel, titled Arkham Woods, a supernatural tale of horror inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and published by Seven Seas.

Publications

Arna trilogy

  1. Book: The Ancient Enemy . 2000 . ROC . 978-0-451-45772-1 . New York . ocm43436203.
  2. Book: The Shasht War . 2001 . Roc . 978-0-451-45817-9 . New York . ocm45964503.
  3. Book: Doom's Break . 2002 . Roc . 978-0-451-45903-9 . New York . ocm51205574.

Bazil Broketail series

  1. Book: Bazil Broketail . 1992 . Penguin Group . 978-0-451-45206-1 . ROC . New York . ocm26368255.
  2. Book: A Sword for a Dragon . 1993 . Roc . 978-0-451-45235-1 . New York, N.Y.
  3. Book: Dragons of War . 1994 . Roc . 978-0-451-45342-6 . New York . ocm31417622.
  4. Book: Battledragon . Penguin Books USA . 1995 . 978-0-451-45343-3.
  5. Book: A Dragon at World's End . 1997 . ROC . 978-0-451-45546-8 . New York . ocm36279351.
  6. Book: The Dragons of Argonath . 1998 . Roc . 978-0-451-45547-5 . New York . ocm38276149.
  7. Book: Dragon Ultimate . 1999 . Penguin Group . 978-0-451-45548-2 . New York.
  8. Book: The Wizard and the Floating City . 1996 . ROC . 978-0-451-45469-0 . New York . ocm18766305.
  9. Book: Lands of Terror . 2018 . Voyager.World . 978-0-997-71836-2.

Battle Dragons books

Fenrille series

  1. Book: The Founder . Del Rey Books . 978-0-345-33175-5. [2]
  2. Book: To a Highland Nation . 1993 . Del Rey Book . 978-0-345-35860-8 . New York.
  3. Book: The War for Eternity . 1983 . Ballantine Books . 978-0-345-31052-1 . New York . ocm10791177.
  4. Book: The Black Ship . 1985 . Ballantine Books . 978-0-345-31489-5 . New York . ocm12442237.

Netherworld trilogy

  1. Book: Pleasure Model . 2010 . Tor . 978-0-7653-2388-0 . New York . 428027295. [3]
  2. Book: The Bloodstained Man . 2010 . Tor . 978-0-765-32389-7 . New York . ocm12442237. [4]
  3. Book: Money Shot . 2010 . Tor . 978-0-7653-2390-3 . Netherworld . New York.

The Vang trilogy

  1. Book: Starhammer . 1986 . Del Rey Book . 978-0-345-31490-1 . New York.
  2. Book: The Military Form . 1988 . Ballantine Books . 978-0-345-33176-2 . New York.
  3. Book: The Vang: The Battlemaster . 1990 . Ballantine Books . 978-0-345-35859-2 . Dey Rel Science fiction . New York.

Standalone books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: . Compton Crook Award Winners . June 25, 2012.
  2. Web site: 1989-11-01 . The Founder by Christopher Rowley . 2024-08-22 . Publishers Weekly.
  3. Web site: 2009-12-07 . Pleasure Model: Netherworld, Book 1 by Christopher Rowley . 2024-08-22 . Publishers Weekly.
  4. Web site: 2010-05-10 . The Bloodstained Man by Christopher Rowley . 2024-08-22 . Publishers Weekly.

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