Mark Hodder

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Mark Hodder is an English author, since 2008 living in Spain.{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/author.asp?ID=1290|title = Mark Hodder}} His six-part series of 'Burton & Swinburne' steampunk novels opened with The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack, which went on to win the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.philipkdickaward.org/2011/01/2010-philip-k-dick-award-nominees-announced.html|access-date=February 25, 2012|title=2010 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced}} The following two novels, The Curious Case of the Clockwork-Man and Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon, were released in 2011 and 2012 respectively to wide acclaim from fans of the genre,{{cite web |url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3222611.Mark_Hodder |title=Mark Hodder |access-date=4 July 2012}} with the latter nominated for a Sidewise Award.[http://www.sfsite.com/news/2013/07/01/sidewise-award-nominees-3/ Sidewise Award Nominees], SF Site News, July 1, 2013.

His fourth novel in the Burton & Swinburne series, The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi,{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17168300-the-secret-of-abdu-el-yezdi |title=The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi |access-date=2 September 2012}} was also nominated for a Sidewise Award.{{cite news|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/2014-sidewise-award-finalists/ |title=2014 Sidewise Award Finalists |publisher=Locus|date=2014-06-06 |access-date=2014-06-06}}

The standalone novel, A Red Sun Also Rises,{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14288358-a-red-sun-also-rises |title=A Red Sun Also Rises |access-date=4 July 2012}} released in December 2012, transplants a version of Victorian London to another planet.{{cite web|url=http://www.pyrsf.com/RedSunAlsoRises.html |title=A Red Sun Also Rises |access-date=13 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829224222/http://www.pyrsf.com/RedSunAlsoRises.html |archive-date=29 August 2014 }}

In 2015, Hodder began writing a new series set in the far future, called The Oxford Equation.{{cite web|url=http://www.facebook.com/the.oxford.equation |title= The Oxford Equation - author's Facebook page for the series |access-date=13 May 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/TheDissuader/status/550596437630021632 |title= Author's tweet announcing The Oxford Equation |access-date=13 May 2015}}

Hodder is a noted enthusiast for the character of Sexton Blake.[http://www.sextonblake.co.uk Blakiana Website] He was an advisor to several reprint volumes of Blake stories, and the author of the first book in the relaunched sixth series of the Sexton Blake Library, 'The Silent Thunder Caper'.[http://obversebooks.co.uk/product/silent_thunder/ Silent Thunder Caper page]