Stephen Marley is a British author, voice director and

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designer. He was born in

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parents and was educated in

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in Derby and at

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. He graduated in

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in 1971 in

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, gained an M.Sc in the Sociology of Science in 1973 and worked on his Ph.D on ancient Chinese science while lecturing in

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. He gave up an academic career and took up writing full-time in 1985. From 1995 onwards he has also followed a parallel career in video games. In one game he designed on

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Martian Gothic ''Martian Gothic: Unification'' is a 2000 survival horror video game developed by Creative Reality for Microsoft Windows and Coyote Developments for the PlayStation and published by TalonSoft for Microsoft Windows and Take-Two Interactive for th ...

, he voice directed, among others,

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and

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. He has had eight novels published, the most recent a thriller entitled ''The Heresy''. His third novel, ''Mortal Mask'', was acclaimed 'his masterpiece' in the Clute/Grant

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' is a 1997 reference work concerning fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant. Other contributors include Mike Ashley, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, David Langford, Sam J. Lundwall, Michael Scott R ...

Novels

* ''Spirit Mirror'':

Chia Black Dragon Chia Black Dragon is the eponymous anti-hero of a dark fantasy series of novels written by Stephen Marley. Chia is identified in the novels as "The most dangerous woman in the history of man". The term "Chinese Gothic" was coined to describe the ...

series;

dark fantasy Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporate disturbing and frightening themes of fantasy. It often combines fantasy with elements of horror or has a gloomy dark tone or a sense of horror and dr ...

: publisher

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(1988) * ''Mary Messiah'';

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: publisher. Endeavour Press (2015) * ''Mortal Mask'':

series;

: publisher

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(1991) * ''Shadow Sisters'':

series;

: publisher

(1993) * ''

Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra. He first appeared in the second issue of ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' (1977), which is a British weekly anthology Comic book, comic. He is the ...

Dreddlocked ''Dreddlocked'' (1993) is an original novel written by Stephen Marley and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip ''Judge Dredd Judge Joseph Dredd is a fictional character created by writer John Wagner and artist Carlo ...

'';

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: publisher

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(1993) * ''

Dread Dominion ''Dread Dominion'' (1994) is an original novel written by Stephen Marley and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip ''Judge Dredd''. It is Marley's second ''Judge Dredd'' novel. Synopsis 37 years ago Judge Joe Dredd arres ...

'';

: publisher

(1994) * ''

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 ...

Managra ''Managra'' is an original novel written by Stephen Marley and based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. The novel features the Fourth Doctor The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the ...

'';

: publisher

(1995). * "The Heresy": thriller Musa Publishing (2013)

Short stories

* ''Diary of a (Mad?)man'' prequel story for Dreamweb

(see also video games) * ''Bibliophage'' in

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5 (1997) * ''Waters-of-Starlight'' in

5 (1997) * ''Count (Baron) Dracula and Baron (Count) Frankenstein'' in

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(2010) * ''Knitworld'' in Perfect Timing 2 (1999) * ''All the Fun of the Fear'' in ''

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'' (

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) 2012, edited by Jay Eales. * ''Young Sherlock Holmes and the Mansion of Doom'' in ''Tales of the Great Detectives'' (

) 2014, edited by Philip Purser-Hallard. * ''Apocryphon'' in ''Tales from the Vatican Vaults'' (

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) 2015, edited by David V Barrett.

Video games

* '' Dreamweb'' on PC and Amiga: prequel story published with the game. Developers, Creative Reality; publishers

Empire Interactive Empire Interactive was a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based in London. Founded in 1987 by Ian Higgins and Simon Jeffrey, it was acquired by Silverstar Holdings in 2006 and went out of business in 2009. His ...

(1994) * '' Warhammer: Dark Omen'' on PC: dialogue scriptwriter and voice acting direction. Developers, Mindscape; publishers

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(1995) * ''Martian Gothic'' aka '' Martian Gothic: Unification'' on PC and PlayStation: designer, dialogue scriptwriter, voice acting and casting director. Developers, Creative Reality; publishers

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(2001)

External links

Stephen Marley official website
*
2000 AD profile

''Stephen Marley''
profile at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marley, Stephen Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British people of Irish descent English science fiction writers British video game designers English historical novelists English fantasy writers British casting directors English voice directors Video game designers Video game directors Video game writers Video game producers People educated at Bemrose School Writers of Doctor Who novels 20th-century English novelists 21st-century British writers People from Derby