Philip Athans (born 1964 in

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) is an American editor and author.

Biography

Philip Athans was born in 1964 in

, but was raised in

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. Athans grew up reading

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comics and ''

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'' magazines, and watching ''

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''. He graduated from film school in 1985 and started small circulation literary magazine called ''Alternative Fiction & Poetry''. Although Athans used to work in a record store while working on his writing career in his spare time, he was taken on in the book publishing department of TSR in 1995 when J. Robert King resigned from his full-time position as editor, and Athans stayed on through the 1997 transition to

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. Athans became Managing Editor for Wizards of the Coast Book Publishing, where he spent most of his time as the

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novel line editor. There he edited dozens of anthologies and novels, and continued to write his own, and helped launch the

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, ''

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'', and ''Dungeons & Dragons'' novel lines. He wrote a number of Forgotten Realms books such as '' Lies of the Light'' in 2006 and ''

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'' in 2008. He is well known for writing the novelizations of the computer games, ''

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'' and '' Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn''. His most recent works are the three novels in the ''Watercourse Trilogy''.

Partial bibliography

Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate series

* ''

'' (1999) * '' Baldur's Gate 2: The Shadows of Amn'' (2000)

Forgotten Realms: War of the Spider Queen series

* ''

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'' (2004)

Forgotten Realms: The Watercourse Trilogy

* ''

Whisper of Waves ''Whisper of Waves'' is a fantasy novel by Philip Athans, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game. It is the first novel in "The Watercouse Trilogy".D'Ammassa, Don (September 2006). "Whis ...

'' (2005)D'Ammassa, Don (September 2006). "Whisper of Waves/Midnight's Mask/The Emerald Scepter/Guardian: Saviors of Kamizawa", ''

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'' 28 (3): 66. * ''Lies of Light'' (2006) * ''Scream of Stone'' (2007)

Other novels

* ''The Savage Caves'' (under the pseudonym T.H. Lain) (2002) * ''The Halls of Stormweather (Gateway to Sembia)'' (2007)

References

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