Django Wexler

Wexler obtained degrees in creative writing and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and engaged in post-graduate artificial intelligence research at the university. He later worked as a programmer and writer for Microsoft in Seattle before turning to writing fiction full-time.{{cite web|title=Django Wexler|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/author/226833/django-wexler/|website=www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com|publisher=Penguin Random House Audio|accessdate=11 January 2018}}

Wexler's epic fantasy series, The Shadow Campaigns, is set in a world resembling Europe and North Africa during the Napoleonic era. It mainly follows three soldiers of the kingdom of Vordan – Count Janus bet Vhalnich, a character patterned after Napoleon,{{cite news|title=An Interview with Django Wexler - SFWA |url=http://www.sfwa.org/2013/09/interview-django-wexler/ |accessdate=11 January 2018 |publisher=SFWA|date=12 September 2013}} Marcus d'Ivoire, a seasoned infantry commander posted to a backward colony, and Winter Ihernglass, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to be able to enlist. As they struggle through Vordan's equivalents of the French Revolution and the attendant wars, they also face a supernatural threat in the form of conspiracies fighting for control of the rare remnants of magic still existing in the world.

Reviewing the series for Tor.com, Stefan Raets described the first novel, The Thousand Names, as a "military fantasy full of spectacular battles" with a large and diverse cast, but criticized Winter's lack of agency.{{cite news|last1=Raets|first1=Stefan|title=Chaos in Khandar: The Thousand Names by Django Wexler |url=https://www.tor.com/2013/07/03/book-review-the-thousand-names-by-django-wexler/ |accessdate=11 January 2018 |publisher=Tor.com |date=3 July 2013}}

The Shadow Throne was appreciated by Publishers Weekly as an "audacious and subversive sequel"{{cite news|title=Fiction Book Review: The Shadow Throne by Django Wexler |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-451-41806-7 |accessdate=11 January 2018 |work=Publishers Weekly |language=en}} and by Liz Bourke at Tor.com as an "immensely entertaining" novel that unlike other male-written fantasy, avoided the grimdark trend and featured a "central, significant, queer relationship between two women", but noted that Wexler relied much on coincidences to advance the plot.{{cite news|last1=Bourke|first1=Liz|title=Fantasy French Revolution with Lesbians: The Shadow Throne by Django Wexler|url=https://www.tor.com/2014/07/01/book-review-the-shadow-throne-django-wexler/|accessdate=11 January 2018|publisher=Tor.com |date=1 July 2014}} She also praised the third novel, The Price of Valour, for surpassing its predecessors as an "explosive, action-packed" epic fantasy novel with complex characterization and, again, a wide variety of female characters.{{cite news|last1=Bourke|first1=Liz|title=Shut Up And Take My Money: The Price of Valor by Django Wexler|url=https://www.tor.com/2015/07/06/book-review-the-price-of-valor-by-django-wexler/ |accessdate=11 January 2018 |publisher=Tor.com |date=6 July 2015}}

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1. The Thousand Names, 2013, Roc, {{ISBN|978-0-451-46510-8}}
2. The Shadow Throne, 2014, Roc, {{ISBN|978-0-451-41806-7}}
3. The Price of Valor, 2015, Del Rey, {{ISBN|978-0-091-95056-9}}
4. The Guns of Empire, 2016, Ace, {{ISBN|978-0-451-47732-3}}
5. The Infernal Battalion, 2018, Ace, {{ISBN|978-0-451-47734-7}}

Short fiction:

• "[https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-coolest-fantasy-story-youll-read-this-week-514117561 The Penitent Damned]", 2013, io9
• "The Shadow of Elysium", 2015, InterMix

1. The Forbidden Library
2. The Mad Apprentice
3. The Palace of Glass
4. The Fall of the Readers

1. John Golden: Freelance Debugger
2. John Golden & the Heroes of Mazaroth

1. Ship of Smoke and Steel, January 2019, Tor Teen, {{ISBN|978-0-7653-9724-9}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-9724-9 |title=Ship of Smoke and Steel |website=Publishers Weekly |access-date=9 January 2019}}
2. City of Stone and Silence, January 2020, Tor Teen, {{ISBN|9780765397270}}{{Cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/cityofstoneandsilence/djangowexler/9780765397270 |title=City of Stone and Silence {{!}} Django Wexler |website=Macmillan |language=en-US |access-date=5 April 2020}}
3. Siege of Rage and Ruin, January 2021, Tor Teen, {{ISBN|9780765397317}}

1. Ashes of the Sun, July 2020
2. Blood of the Chosen, October 2021
3. Emperor of Ruin, April 2023

• The Gathering Storm - released in 20 instalments, June–October 2019
• {{cite book |title=Sundered bond |type=Kindle ebook |publisher=Wizards of the Coast |date=2020}}

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