Cassandra Khaw (born 31 August 1984) is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction. They also create video games and tabletop games, and formerly wrote about them as a games and tech journalist.
Biography
Cassandra Khaw was born in
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
on 31 August 1984 as Zoe Khaw Joo Ee. They work as a
horror and
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
writer for
video games
Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device to generate visual feedback. This feedbac ...
,
tabletop RPG
A tabletop role-playing game (typically abbreviated as TRPG or TTRPG), also known as a pen-and-paper role-playing game, is a form of role-playing game (RPG) in which the participants describe their characters' actions through speech. Participa ...
s, short stories and novels. Their articles and stories have been published in such magazines as
Tor.com
''Tor.com'' is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine published by Tor Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers. The magazine publishes articles, reviews, original short fiction, re-reads and commentary on speculative fiction.
From 20 ...
,
Clarkesworld
''Clarkesworld Magazine'' (ISSN 1937-7843) is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It released its first issue October 1, 2006 and has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Elizabet ...
, Fireside Fiction,
Uncanny Magazine
''Uncanny Magazine'' is an American science fiction and fantasy online magazine, edited and published by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas, based in Urbana, Illinois. Its mascot is a space unicorn.
The editors-in-chief, who originally ...
, and
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
. Their video game writing appears in Eurogamer,
Ars Technica, The Verge and Engadget. Khaw works for
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include '' Assassin's Creed'', ''Far Cry'', ...
as a scriptwriter.
They use they/them pronouns.
Bibliography
Gods & Monsters
Rupert Wong
* ''Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef'' (2015)
F* ''Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth'' (2017)
F* ''The Last Supper Before Ragnarok'' (2019)
* ''Food of the Gods'' (2017)
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Anthologies
* ''Southeast Asian Urban Anthologies''
* ''Flesh: A Southeast Asian Urban Anthology'' (2016) with Angeline Woon
Chapbooks
* ''Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef'' (2015)
* ''Hammers on Bone'' (2016)
* ''Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth'' (2017)
* ''Bearly a Lady'' (2017)
* ''A Song for Quiet'' (2017)
* ''Baby Shower'' (2018)
* ''Dreadnought'' (2018)
Short fiction (series)
Born to the Blade
* ''Baby Shower'' (2018)
* ''Dreadnought'' (2018)
Persons Non Grata
* ''Hammers on Bone'' (2016)
* ''A Song for Quiet'' (2017)
Short fiction
* ''Disconnect'' (2014)
* ''What the Highway Prefers'' (2015)
* ''Red String'' (2015)
* ''An Ocean of Eyes'' (2015)
* ''In the Rustle of Pages'' (2015)
* ''Her Pound of Flesh'' (2015)
* ''The Man Who Buys Giggles'' (2015)
* ''When We Die on Mars'' (2015)
* ''Clown Shoes'' (2016)
* ''Every Instance of You'' (2016)
* ''The Games We Play'' (2016)
* ''Breathe'' (2016)
* ''Some Breakable Things'' (2016)
* ''Speak'' (2016)
* ''The Price of Small Joys'' (2016)
* ''Degrees of Beauty'' (2016)
* ''And in Our Daughters, We Find a Voice'' (2016)
* ''For the Things We Never Said'' (2016)
* ''Hungry Ghosts'' (2016)
* ''What to Do When It's Nothing but Static'' (2017)
* ''Goddess, Worm'' (2017)
* ''The Ghost Stories We Tell Around Photon Fires'' (2017)
* ''Radio Werewolf'' (2017)
* ''The Day They Found the Train'' (2017)
* ''Saudade'' (2017)
* ''Bearly a Lady'' (2017)
* ''Custom-Made'' (2017)
* ''I Built This City for You'' (2017)
* ''Masterclass'' (2017)
* ''These Deathless Bones'' (2017)
* ''The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat'' (2017)
* ''Degrees of Ellision'' (2017)
* ''Don't Turn on the Lights'' (2017)
* ''Kiss, Don't Tell'' (2017)
* ''A Secret of Devils'' (2017)
* ''Landmark'' (2017)
* ''The Quiet Like a Homecoming'' (2018)
* ''A Priest of Vast and Distant Places'' (2018)
* ''You Do Nothing but Freefall'' (2018) with A. Maus
* ''She Who Hungers, She Who Waits'' (2018)
* ''How the Spider Got Her Legs'' (2018)
* ''Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball'' (2018)
* ''Recite Her the Names of Pain'' (2018)
* ''And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?'' (2018)
* ''Shooting Iron'' (2018) with Jonathan L. Howard
* ''Bargains by the Slant-Light'' (2018)
* ''Monologue by an unnamed mage'', recorded at the brink of the end (2018)
* ''Nepenthe'' (2019)
* ''What We Have Chosen to Love'' (2019)
* ''Mighty Are the Meek and the Myriad'' (2019)
* ''Nothing But Blackened Teeth'' (2021)
Poems
* ''Protestations Against the Idea of Anglicization'' (2017)
* ''My Mama'' (2017)
* ''Apathetic Goblin Nightmare Woman'' (2017)
* ''Found Discarded: A Love Poem, Questionably Addressed.'' (2018)
* ''Octavia's Letter to Marcus Anthony on the Discovery of His Faithlessness'' (2018)
* ''A Letter from One Woman to Another'' (2019)
* ''Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can'' (2019)
Tabletop games
* ''
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft'' (writer,
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games. It is currently a subsidia ...
, 2021)
* ''
Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep'' (writer, Wizards of the Coast, 2022)
Video games
* ''
World of Horror
''World of Horror'', also known by its Japanese title , is a role-playing video game with a 1-bit pixel art style, inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Junji Ito. The game was created by Polish developer Paweł Koźmiński, and published ...
'' (co-writer, 2020)
References
External links
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1984 births
Living people
Malaysian writers
Malaysian expatriates in Canada
Video game writers