Charles E. Gannon is a novelist and
game designer who has worked primarily on hard
science-fiction and
role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within ...
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Career
Charles Gannon wrote ''
Hard Times
Hard may refer to:
* Hardness, resistance of physical materials to deformation or fracture
* Hard water, water with high mineral content
Arts and entertainment
* ''Hard'' (TV series), a French TV series
* Hard (band), a Hungarian hard rock supe ...
'' (1991), a ''
MegaTraveller'' book which pushed the background
metaplot
The metaplot (also, metastory) is the overarching storyline that binds together events in the official continuity of a published role-playing game campaign setting, also defined as an "evolving history of a given fictional universe". Major officia ...
up by six years.
Gannon wrote many articles in ''
Challenge
Challenge may refer to:
* Voter challenging or caging, a method of challenging the registration status of voters
* Euphemism for disability
* Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors from jury duty
Places
Geography
*Challenge, C ...
'' magazine about "The Hinterworlds", a sector of space in the Imperium of the ''
Traveller
Traveler(s), traveller(s), The Traveler(s), or The Traveller(s) may refer to:
People Generic terms
*One engaged in travel
*Explorer, one who searches for the purpose of discovery of information or resources
*Nomad, a member of a community withou ...
'' universe.
Gannon has also co-written novels in the
1632 series
The ''1632'' series, also known as the 1632-verse or ''Ring of Fire'' series, is an alternate history book series and sub-series created, primarily co-written, and coordinated by American author Eric Flint and published by Baen Books.
The s ...
with
Eric Flint, including ''
1635: The Papal Stakes'' (2012), ''
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies'' (2014),
and ''1636: The Vatican Sanction'' (2015). His novels ''Fire with Fire'' and ''Trial by Fire'' were both nominated for the
Nebula Award for Best Novel (in 2014 and 2015 respectively). He was nominated again in 2016 for ''Raising Caine,'' and in 2020 for ''Marque of Caine.''
Bibliography
Tales of the Terran Republic
This progression of books is also known as the "Caine Riordan series" or the "22nd Century series"
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Spinoffs and related fiction
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* ''Triage'' (with Eric Flint; upcoming)
* ''Misbegotten'' (upcoming)
a non-mainline Terran Republic novel
Vortex of Worlds
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Starfire series
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The 1632 series
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Black Tide Rising
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References
External links
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Charles E. Gannon :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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1960 births
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
Living people
Role-playing game designers