Scott Oden

Oden was born in Columbus, Indiana in 1967. He graduated from Albert P. Brewer High School in 1985 and attended John C. Calhoun State Community College in Decatur, Alabama, where he studied English and History. Oden began writing at the age of 14, and his first published work was a role-playing game called "Rogue Warrior" in 1986, illustrated by teen-aged Cully Hamner.{{Cite web|url=http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com/2010/12/interview-with-scott-oden.html|title=Guys Lit Wire: Interview with Scott Oden|date=December 14, 2010}}

Oden published Men of Bronze in 2005. It was followed in 2006 by Memnon and in 2010 with The Lion of Cairo, which mixed pulp-style action and sorcery with Crusader politics in Fatimid Egypt.

In 2017, Oden published A Gathering of Ravens — the first in a projected trilogy of stand-alone novels featuring the savage orc Grimnir.{{cite web | title=A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden | website=PublishersWeekly.com | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312372941 | access-date=4 March 2025}} The second book, Twilight of the Gods, appeared in 2020. The third book in the trilogy, The Doom of Odin was published in 2023.{{cite web | url=https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2023/11/30/review-the-doom-of-odin-by-scott-oden | title=REVIEW: The Doom of Odin by Scott Oden | date=30 November 2023 }}

The Garden

In 2025, Oden published "A Clockwork's Dreaming and Other Tales," a collection of whimsical stories detailing the adventures of various mice and other small creatures living in an enchanted French garden.{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2025/03/19/across-time-claude-moreau-and-his-translator-scott-oden-in-conversation/ | title=Across Time: Claude Moreau and His Translator Scott Oden in Conversation – Black Gate | date=23 March 2025 }} The work represents a significant departure from his historical fiction and sword-and-sorcery, exploring themes of memory, connection, and the magic found in everyday life.{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2025/03/19/across-time-claude-moreau-and-his-translator-scott-oden-in-conversation/ | title=Across Time: Claude Moreau and His Translator Scott Oden in Conversation – Black Gate | date=23 March 2025 }}

Oden identifies his writing influences as J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Mary Renault, Harold Lamb, Karl Edward Wagner, and Steven Pressfield.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-22|title=INTERVIEW: Scott Oden Brings Fantasy, History To Life|url=https://www.paintmonkslibrary.com/2019/12/22/interview-scott-oden-brings-fantasy-history-to-vivid-life/|access-date=2021-09-29|website=Paint Monk's Library|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=2020-02-18|title=Q&A: Scott Oden, Author of 'Twilight of the Gods'|url=https://www.thenerddaily.com/scott-oden-author-interview/|access-date=2021-09-29|website=The Nerd Daily|language=en-AU}}

• Men of Bronze (June 2005, Medallion Press, {{ISBN|978-1-932815-18-4}})
• Memnon (August 2006, Medallion Press, {{ISBN|978-1-932815-39-9}})
• The Lion of Cairo (December 2010, Thomas Dunne Books, {{ISBN|978-0-312-37293-4}})
• A Gathering of Ravens (June 2017, Thomas Dunne Books)
• Twilight of the Gods (February 2020, St. Martin's Press)
• The Doom of Odin (December 2023, St. Martin's Press)
• A Clockwork's Dreaming and Other Tales (January 2025, Independently Published, {{ISBN|9798308229124}})

• "Theos Khthonios" (2011, in Lawyers in Hell)
• "Amarante: A Tale of Old Tharduin" (2012, self-published)
• "Sanctuary" (2012, self-published)
• ”Xenia in the Court of the Winds” (2017, in A Sea of Sorrow: A Novel of Odysseus)
• “A Shadow of Vengeance” (2019, serialized in Marvel's Savage Sword of Conan, issues #1-#12)
• “Conan Unconquered” (2019, included in Conan Unconquered Deluxe Edition from Funcom)
• "The White Lion" (2022, independently published)

• “Introduction” (2011, Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures by Robert E. Howard)
• “An Empire of Ghosts and Smoke” (2021, Robert E. Howard Changed My Life, edited by Jason M. Waltz)

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