Steven Savile

Infobox Writer
name = Steven Savile
birthdate = birth date and age|1969|10|12
birthplace = Newcastle, England
occupation = Writer, editor
nationality = British
period = 1999-present
genre = Fantasy, Horror
website = http://www.stevensavile.com

Steven Savile (born October 12, 1969, in Newcastle, England) is a British fantasy and horror writer, and editor living in Stockholm, Sweden. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.

Published works

Novels

* "Secret Life of Colors" (2000)
* "Laughing Boy's Shadow" (2003 & 2007)
* "Inheritance" (2006)
* "Dominion" (2006)
* "Slaine the Exile" (2006)
* "Retribution" (2007)
* "Slaine the Defiler" (2007)
* "" (2008) (audiobook original)
* "Vampire Wars" (2008)
* "" (2008)
* "Curse of the Necrarch" (2008)

Forthcoming:
* "Stargate SG-1: Shadows (2008) Book One of The Iblis Trilogy
* "Fantastic Television" (2008) (non-fiction: essays on contemporary genre television)
* "Snuff" (2008) The first Gabriel Rush crime novel
* "Hate Mail" (2008) The second Gabriel Rush crime novel

Novellas

* "Houdini's Last Illusion" (2004)
* "Temple: Incarnations" (2007)
* "The Hollow Earth" (2007) (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)

hort story collections

* "Similar Monsters" (2001)
* "Angel Road" (2004)
* "The Incompleat Steven Savile" (2009)

Graphic novels

* "The Fragrance of You" (2005)

Uncollected Short stories

* "Mens Rea" - appeared in the anthology "Aegri Somnia"
* "Ghosts of Love" - appeared in the anthology "Touched By Wonder" (A Thera Story)
* "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!"
* "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"

As Editor

* "Redbrick Eden: Scaremongers 2" (1999)
* "Elemental" (2006) (co-edited)
* "Black Gondolier and Other Stories" (2003) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part one (co-edited)
* "Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions" (2004) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part two (co-edited)
* "Destination Prague" (2007) Doctor Who Short Trips Volume 20

Doctor Who Short stories

* "Falling From Xi'an" - appeared in the anthology ""
* "The Sorrows of Vienna" - appeared in the anthology ""
* "Loose Change" - appeared in the anthology ""
* "The Stars Our Contamination" - appeared in the anthology ""
* "Peaceable Kingdom" - appeared in the anthology ""

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.

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 ', ', ', ' and ' anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology ', 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 is writing the first novel tied in to the universe of the British television show "Primeval", for Titan Books.

He is currently writing a new series of gritty crime horror crossover novels featuring Gabriel Rush for Full Moon Press in the US.

References

External links

* [http://www.stevensavile.com Steven Savile's official Web site]