Christopher Rowley

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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.{{cite web |publisher=Baltimore Science Fiction Society |title=Compton Crook Award Winners |url=http://www.bsfs.org/bsfsccw.htm |accessdate=June 25, 2012}} 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.{{Cn|date=August 2024}}

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.{{Cn|date=August 2024}}

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.{{Cn|date=August 2024}}

Publications

= Arna trilogy =

{{Cite book |title=The Ancient Enemy |date=2000 |publisher=ROC |isbn=978-0-451-45772-1 |location=New York |oclc=ocm43436203}}
{{Cite book |title=The Shasht War |date=2001 |publisher=Roc |isbn=978-0-451-45817-9 |location=New York |oclc=ocm45964503}}
{{Cite book |title=Doom's Break |date=2002 |publisher=Roc |isbn=978-0-451-45903-9 |location=New York |oclc=ocm51205574}}

= Bazil Broketail series =

{{Cite book |last= |first= |title=Bazil Broketail |date=1992 |publisher=Penguin Group |isbn=978-0-451-45206-1 |series=ROC |location=New York |oclc=ocm26368255}}
{{Cite book |last= |first= |title=A Sword for a Dragon |date=1993 |publisher=Roc |isbn=978-0-451-45235-1 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |title=Dragons of War |date=1994 |publisher=Roc |isbn=978-0-451-45342-6 |location=New York |oclc=ocm31417622}}
{{Cite book |title=Battledragon |publisher=Penguin Books USA |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-451-45343-3}}
{{Cite book |title=A Dragon at World's End |date=1997 |publisher=ROC |isbn=978-0-451-45546-8 |location=New York |oclc=ocm36279351}}
{{Cite book |title=The Dragons of Argonath |date=1998 |publisher=Roc |isbn=978-0-451-45547-5 |location=New York |oclc=ocm38276149}}
{{Cite book |title=Dragon Ultimate |date=1999 |publisher=Penguin Group |isbn=978-0-451-45548-2 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |title=The Wizard and the Floating City |date=1996 |publisher=ROC |isbn=978-0-451-45469-0 |edition= |series= |location=New York |oclc=ocm18766305}}
{{Cite book |title=Lands of Terror |date=2018 |publisher=Voyager.World |isbn=978-0-997-71836-2}}

== Battle Dragons books ==

{{Cite book |title=The Doom |date=2016 |publisher=Voyager.World}}
{{Cite book |title=Witch Sword |date=2016 |publisher=Voyager.World |isbn=978-0-997-71831-7}}
{{Cite book |title=Demon Blood |date=2017 |publisher=Voyager.World |isbn=978-0-997-71833-1}}

= Fenrille series =

{{Cite book |title=The Founder |date=1989 |publisher=Del Rey Books |isbn=978-0-345-33175-5}}{{Cite web |date=1989-11-01 |title=The Founder by Christopher Rowley |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780345331755 |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
{{Cite book |title=To a Highland Nation |date=1993 |publisher=Del Rey Book |isbn=978-0-345-35860-8 |series= |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |title=The War for Eternity |date=1983 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-31052-1 |edition= |series= |location=New York |oclc=ocm10791177}}
{{Cite book |title=The Black Ship |date=1985 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-31489-5 |series= |location=New York |oclc=ocm12442237}}

= Netherworld trilogy =

{{Cite book |title=Pleasure Model |date=2010 |publisher=Tor |isbn=978-0-7653-2388-0 |edition= |series= |location=New York |oclc=428027295}}{{Cite web |date=2009-12-07 |title=Pleasure Model: Netherworld, Book 1 by Christopher Rowley |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780765323880 |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
{{Cite book |title=The Bloodstained Man |date=2010 |publisher=Tor |isbn=978-0-765-32389-7 |series= |location=New York |oclc=ocm12442237}}{{Cite web |date=2010-05-10 |title=The Bloodstained Man by Christopher Rowley |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780765323897 |access-date=2024-08-22 |website=Publishers Weekly}}
{{Cite book |title=Money Shot |date=2010 |publisher=Tor |isbn=978-0-7653-2390-3 |edition= |series=Netherworld |location=New York}}

= The Vang trilogy =

{{Cite book |title=Starhammer |date=1986 |publisher=Del Rey Book |isbn=978-0-345-31490-1 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |title=The Military Form |date=1988 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-33176-2 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |title=The Vang: The Battlemaster |date=1990 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-35859-2 |series=Dey Rel Science fiction |location=New York}}

= Standalone books =

{{Cite book |title=Golden Sunlands |date=1987 |publisher=Ballantine Books |isbn=978-0-345-33174-8 |edition= |series= |location=New York |oclc=ocm18766305}}
{{Cite book |title=Arkham Woods |date=2009 |publisher=Seven Seas |others=Illustrated by Jhomar Soriano |isbn=978-1-934-87636-7}}

References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.christopherrowley.net}} (2005–2009)
{{ISFDB name|id=Christopher_Rowley|name=Christopher Rowley}}
[http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/rowley_christopher Christopher Rowley] at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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