Steven Savile (born 12 October 1969) is a British fantasy,
horror and
thriller writer and editor living in Sweden. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.
Career
Steven Savile started out writing and reviewing play-by-mail games in the UK in the late 1980s, then launched his own company, Games (intentionally misspelled), before working for
Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are ''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and ''Warhammer 40,000''.
Founded in 1975 by John Peake (gam ...
.
He has written several novels, including ''Inheritance'', ''Dominion'', and ''Retribution'', all set in the Warhammer world, as well as fiction connected to ''Slaine'', ''Dr. Who'', and ''Torchwood''.
Savile has primarily made his name working in established franchises such as ''
Star Wars
''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop-culture Cultural impact of S ...
'', ''
Stargate
''Stargate'' (often stylized in all caps) is a military science fiction media franchise based on the Stargate (film), film directed by Roland Emmerich, which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin. The franchise is based on the idea of an alien E ...
'', ''
Jurassic Park: The Lost World'', ''
Fireborn'', ''
Risen'', ''
Warhammer
Warhammer may refer to:
* War hammer, a medieval weapon
Warhammer media franchise
*''Warhammer'', a series of games and related media:
** ''Warhammer'' (game), a table-top fantasy miniature wargame, and origin of the franchise
** ''Warhammer Fan ...
'' and ''
Pathfinder
Pathfinder may refer to:
Businesses
* Pathfinder Energy Services, a division of Smith International
* Pathfinder Press, a publisher of socialist literature
Computing and information science
* Path Finder, a Macintosh file browser
* Pathfinder ( ...
''. He's also written a number of Top Trumps facts books for kids including Dinosaurs, Creatures of the Deep, and Predators among others. He has also written a number of original novels, including the Ogmios team series which began with Silver. Savile's most successful novel to date, Silver, reached #2 on the Amazon best-seller charts and was listed by The Bookseller as one of the Top 30 best-selling digital titles of 2011.
Savile has also written and edited ''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'' stories for
Big Finish with his work featuring in ''
The Centenarian'', ''
Snapshots
Snapshot, snapshots or snap shot may refer to:
* Snapshot (photography), a photograph taken without preparation
Computing
* Snapshot (computer storage), the state of a system at a particular point in time
* Snapshot (file format) or SNP, a file ...
'', ''
Defining Patterns'', ''
The Ghosts of Christmas'' and ''
The Quality of Leadership'' anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology ''
Destination Prague'', the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two ''
Sláine'' novels for
Black Flame, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied into the universe of the British television show ''
Primeval
Primeval may refer to:
* Primeval forest, an area of forest that has attained great age
* Primeval number, a positive integer satisfying certain conditions
* Primeval history, name given by biblical scholars to the first eleven chapters of the Bo ...
'', for Titan Books.
Savile was a runner-up for the
British Fantasy Award
The British Fantasy Awards (BFA) are awarded annually by the British Fantasy Society (BFS), first in 1976. Prior to that they were known as The August Derleth Fantasy Awards (see August Derleth Award). First awarded in 1972 (to ''The Knight of S ...
in 2000 and again in 2010. With his novel ''
Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar'', Savile won the Best Young Adult Original Novel for the 2009 Scribe Awards presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Tau Ceti, co-written with Kevin J Anderson, is a nominee for the inaugural Lifeboat Award for novels featuring inter-stellar travel.
He has edited and co-edited numerous anthologies, including Redbrick Eden, which raised money for the homeless charity Shelter and the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology ''Elemental'', a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami
A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explo ...
that includes work by
Arthur C. Clarke,
Brian Aldiss
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,
David Drake
David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre.
Biography
Drake graduated Phi ...
,
,
Martha Wells
Martha Wells (born September 1, 1964) is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has published a number of fantasy novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on fantasy and science fiction subjects. He ...
,
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are ''Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, ''The Mote in God's Eye'' ...
,
Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including ''The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), have wo ...
,
Eric Nylund
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, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor),
Stel Pavlou
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Personal life
Pavlou was born in Kent, En ...
,
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger.
Biography
Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family a ...
,
Sean Williams,
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955, in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.
Profile
Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in ' ...
,
Brian Herbert
Brian Patrick Herbert (born June 29, 1947) is an American author who lives in Washington (state), Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert (who died in 1986).
Brian Herbert's novels include ''Sidney's Comet' ...
&
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...
, and others.
In May 2013 it was announced that Savile had written a novel with hip hop legend Prodigy of Mobb Deep, H.N.I.C., to be released by Akashic in the US.
He has been published in a dozen languages and sold more than half a million copies of his novels and stories worldwide.
Published works
Standalone novels
* ''The Secret Life of Colors'' (2000)
* ''Laughing Boy's Shadow'' (2003 and 2007)
* ''London Macabre'' (2012)
* ''Black Chalice'' (2011)
* ''Hallowed Ground'' (co-written with David Niall Wilson) (2011)
* ''
Fireborn: Each Ember's Ghost'' (2012)
* ''Risen: Dark Waters'' (2012) (Companion novel to the videogame ''
Risen 2: Dark Waters'')
* ''Sign of Glaaki: An Arkham Horror Novel'' (co-written with Steve Lockley) (2013)
* ''Immortal'' (2014)
* ''
Murder At Sorrow's Crown'' (a
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
novel, co-written with
Robert Greenberger) (2016)
* ''Glass Town'' (2017)
The Ogmios Team novels
* ''Silver'' (2010)
* ''Solomon's Seal'' (co-written with Steve Lockley) (2012)
* ''WarGod'' (co-written with Sean Ellis) (2012)
* ''Lucifer's Machine'' (co-written with Rick Chesler) (forthcoming 2013)
* ''Gold'' (AKA 'Gold: an Ogmios Adventure')' (forthcoming 2013)
* ''Argo'' (co-written with Ashley Knight) (2017)
''The Lay of Sláine Mac Roth''
Novels featuring the Celtic warrior known as
Sláine Mac Roth:
# ''Sláine the Exile'' (2006)
# ''Sláine the Defiler'' (2007)
''Primeval'' related
Primeval
Primeval may refer to:
* Primeval forest, an area of forest that has attained great age
* Primeval number, a positive integer satisfying certain conditions
* Primeval history, name given by biblical scholars to the first eleven chapters of the Bo ...
TV series related novels:
* ''
Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar'' (2008)
''Stargate SG-1'' related
''Stargate'' literature for the show ''
Stargate SG-1
''Stargate SG-1'' (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated ''SG-1'') is a military science fiction Adventure fiction, adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate, ''Stargate'' franchise. The show, created by Brad Wrigh ...
'' TV series related novels:
* ''Stargate SG-1: The Power Behind the Throne'' (forthcoming, May 2010)
''Warhammer'' related
Books based in the ''
Warhammer Fantasy Warhammer Fantasy can mean:
* ''Warhammer Fantasy'' (setting), the fictional setting of the various games and media
* ''Warhammer'' (game), a table-top fantasy miniature wargame, and origin of the franchise
*''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'', the success ...
'' mythos:
* ''Curse of the Necrarch'' (2008)
''Warhammer'' ''Von Carstein Trilogy''
# ''
Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of receiving private property, Title (property), titles, debts, entitlements, Privilege (law), privileges, rights, and Law of obligations, obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ ...
'' (2006)
# ''Dominion'' (2006)
# ''Retribution'' (2007)
* ''Vampire Wars'' (2008), omnibus anthology of the trilogy
''Stellaris (video game)'' related
# ''
Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers'' (2016)
''Torchwood'' related
Stories related to the
Torchwood
''Torchwood'' is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. A spin-off of the 2005 revival of ''Doctor Who'', it aired from 2006 to 2011. The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing ...
TV series:
* ''
Torchwood: Hidden'' (2008) (audiobook original)
* ''Black Water'' appeared in the ''
Torchwood Yearbook'' (2008)
* 'Gordian' parts I & II appeared in the ''
Torchwood Magazine
''Torchwood – The Official Magazine'' was a British magazine devoted to the BBC science fiction television series ''Torchwood''. The first issue was released on 24 January 2008 and concluded on 16 December 2010 The United States version was du ...
'' (2009)
Novellas
* ''Icarus Descending'' (2000)
* ''Houdini's Last Illusion'' (2004)
* ''Temple: Incarnations'' (2007)
* ''The Hollow Earth'' (2007) (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
* ''Monster Town''/''The Butcher of Box Hill'' – an
Ace Double
American company Ace Books began publishing genre fiction starting in 1952. Initially these were mostly in tête-bêche format with the ends of the two parts meeting in the middle and with a divider between them which functioned as the rear cover ...
-style front-to-back novella co-written with Brian M. Logan under the pseudonym "Logan Savile" (
Bad Moon Books {{Infobox company ,
name = Bad Moon Books,
foundation = 1992,
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, 2010)
* ''For This Is Hell'' (co-written with Aaron Rosenberg (2012)
Short stories
Collections
* ''Similar Monsters'' (2001)
* ''Angel Road'' (2004)
* "The Horned Man" (2013)
* "Idiot Hearts" (2013)
* "The Sally Reardon Supernatural Mysteries" (co-written with Steve Lockley) (2011)
* "King Wolf" (The Hoke Berglund stories) (2014) Fox Spirit Books
''Doctor Who'' related
''
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
'' short stories written by Steven Savile:
* "Falling From Xi'an" – appeared in the anthology ''
Short Trips: The Centenarian''
* "The Sorrows of Vienna" – appeared in the anthology ''
Short Trips: Snapshots''
* "Loose Change" – appeared in the anthology ''
Short Trips: Defining Patterns''
* "The Stars Our Contamination" – appeared in the anthology ''
Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas''
* "Peaceable Kingdom" – appeared in the anthology ''
Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership''
Uncollected Short stories
* "The Horned Man" – appeared in the anthology ''
Boondocks Fantasy
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''
* "London on the Brink of Never" – appeared in the anthology ''
Spells of the City''
* "Dear Prudence" – appeared in the anthology ''
Blood Lite''
* "Mens Rea" – appeared in the anthology ''
Aegri Somnia
''Aegri Somnia'' is an anthology of horror stories edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth, and published by Apex Books in 2006. The twelve stories in this collection were all written by different authors. In 2006, ''Aegri Somnia'' was nom ...
''
* "Ghosts of Love" – first appeared in the anthology ''
Touched By Wonder'' (A Thera Story) – reprinted in Worlds of Their Own, edited by James Lowder
* "Night of Falling Stars" – appeared in ''
Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show
''Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show'' (2008) is a science fiction and fantasy anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.
Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008, it contains eighteen stories ...
'' (A Thera Story)
* "The Song Her Heart Sang" – appeared in the anthology ''
The Solaris Book of New Fantasy'' (A Thera Story)
* "Idiot Hearts" – appeared in the anthology ''
Poe's Progeny''
* "A Madness of Ravens" – appeared in the anthology ''
Daikaiju!3'' (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
* "Lies of the Flesh" – appeared in the anthology ''
Invasion!'', a
Warhammer Fantasy Warhammer Fantasy can mean:
* ''Warhammer Fantasy'' (setting), the fictional setting of the various games and media
* ''Warhammer'' (game), a table-top fantasy miniature wargame, and origin of the franchise
*''Warhammer Age of Sigmar'', the success ...
anthology
* "Death's Cold Kiss" – appeared in the anthology ''
The Cold Hand of Betrayal''
* "The Angel with the Sad Eyes" – appeared in the anthology ''
Eulogies''
* "Absence of Divinity" – appeared in the anthology ''
Vivisections''
* "Memories in Glass" – appeared in the anthology ''
The Asylum
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''
Graphic novels
* ''The Fragrance of You'' (2005)
Non-fiction
* ''Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction'' (2010) (non-fiction: essays on contemporary genre television)
As editor
* ''Redbrick Eden: Scaremongers 2'' (1999)
* ''Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy'' (2006) (co-edited with
Alethea Kontis
Alethea Kontis is an American writer of Teen & Young Adult Books, picture books and speculative fiction, primarily for children. She lived in Ashburn, Virginia and then in Titusville, FL.
Selected works
Novels
* ''Enchanted'' The Woodcutter Sis ...
)
* ''Black Gondolier and Other Stories'' (2003) The Collected Horror Stories of
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. ( ; December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright, and chess expert. With writers such as Robert ...
part one (co-edited with
John Pelan
John C. Pelan (July 19, 1957 – April 12, 2021) was an American author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres.
He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors su ...
)
* ''Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions'' (2004) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part two (co-edited with John Pelan)
* ''
Short Trips: Destination Prague'' (2007)
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
''
Short Trips'' Volume 20
Notably Savile also wrote the storyline for the first-person single-player campaign mode on the popular computer game Battlefield 3, though the video cut scenes and in game material was written by other writers.
References
External links
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1969 births
English fantasy writers
English horror writers
English science fiction writers
Warhammer Fantasy writers
Living people
People educated at Ewell Castle School
English male novelists