Christopher Rowe (author)

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Christopher Rowe (born December 25, 1969{{cite web |last1=Clute |first1=John |title=Rowe, Christopher |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rowe_christopher |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |access-date=1 June 2022}}) 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.{{cite web |title=Award Bibliography: Christopher Rowe |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?17471 |website=Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date=1 June 2022}}{{cite web |title=Christopher Rowe |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Christopher_Rowe |website=Science Fiction Awards Database |access-date=1 June 2022}}

Career

Rowe's first professionally published short story was "Kin to Crows" (Realms of Fantasy, 1998).{{cite web |title=Chronological Bibliography: Christopher Rowe |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?17471 |website=Internet Speculative Fiction Database |access-date=1 June 2022}} 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).{{cite web |title=These Prisoning Hills |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250804488/theseprisoninghills |website=Macmillan Publishers |publisher=Macmillan |access-date=1 June 2022}}

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"),{{cite web |title=Launch party for local author at Joseph-Beth Tue 11 July 2017 |url=http://www.columbiamagazine.com/index.php?sid=91389 |website=ColumbiaMagazine.com |access-date=1 June 2022}} and Tor.com ("a stellar set of stories that mesh well together").{{cite web |last1=Mandelo |first1=Lee |title=Already Home: Telling the Map by Christopher Rowe |url=https://www.tor.com/2017/07/14/book-reviews-telling-the-map-by-christopher-rowe/ |website=Tor.com |publisher=Tor |access-date=1 June 2022}}

Personal life

He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He was married to fellow author Gwenda Bond, with whom he co-authored The Supernormal Sleuthing Service book series,{{Cite web |title=New story collection sees Kentucky in science fiction, fantasy realms |author=Cheryl Truman |work=Lexington Herald Leader |date=25 July 2017 |access-date=6 October 2022 |url= https://www.kentucky.com/living/article163275958.html }} from 2004 to 2023.{{Cite web |title=Some Sad Personal News |author=Gwenda Bond |work=Dear Reader |access-date=6 October 2023 |url=https://gwendabond.substack.com/p/some-sad-personal-news}}

Bibliography

= Short fiction =

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{{cite book |author=Rowe, Christopher |title=Telling the map |date=2017}}

;StoriesShort stories unless otherwise noted.

class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
width=25%\|Title !\|Year !\|First published !\|Reprinted/collected !\|Notes
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 \|{{cite journal \|author=Rowe, Christopher \|date=January 2015 \|title=The unveiling \|journal=Asimov's Science Fiction \|volume=39 \|issue=1 \|pages=14–21}} \| \|
data-sort-value="border state"\|The Border State \|2017 \| \| \|Sequel to "The Voluntary State"
Knowledgeable Creatures \|2019 \|{{Cite web \|title=Knowledgeable Creatures \|author=Christopher Rowe \|work=Tor.com Original Fiction \|access-date=6 October 2023 \|url=https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/knowledgeable-creatures-christopher-rowe/}} \|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"

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width=25%|Title

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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

|{{cite journal |author=Rowe, Christopher |date=January 2015 |title=The unveiling |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=14–21}}

data-sort-value="border state"|The Border State

|2017

|Sequel to "The Voluntary State"

Knowledgeable Creatures

|2019

|{{Cite web |title=Knowledgeable Creatures |author=Christopher Rowe |work=Tor.com Original Fiction |access-date=6 October 2023 |url=https://www.tor.com/2019/03/06/knowledgeable-creatures-christopher-rowe/}}

|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"

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