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STAN NICHOLLS I’m the author of thirty books, most of them in the fantasy and science fiction genres, and I’ve written for both adult and young readers. Titles include Strange Invaders, Fade to Black, The Nightshade Chroniclestrilogy and Wordsmiths of Wonder: Fifty Interviews With Writers of the Fantastic. I adapted David Gemmell’s Legendand Wolf in Shadowinto graphic novel form, novelised TV series Dark Skies, and wrote authorised biographies of, among others, Gerry Anderson of Thunderbirds fameand Coronation Street’s Willam Roache. My Quicksilver trilogy (Dreamtime trilogy in the US) - Quicksilver Rising, Quicksilver Zenith and Quicksilver Twilight - is published in the UK by Voyager/HarperCollins. My Orcs: First Blood trilogy - Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunderand Warriors of the Tempest - published in the UK by Gollancz, is a worldwide bestseller, with one million, two hundred and fifty thousand copies sold as of 2009. The associated Orcs story ‘The Taking’ was shortlisted for the 2001 British Fantasy Award. Current projects include a return to the Orcs universe with a new trilogy entitled Orcs: Bad Blood. The first volume, Weapons of Magical Destruction, was published in the UK in December 2008; volume two, Army of Shadows, appeared in October 2009. The third volume, due in 2010, will be entitled Inferno. An Orcs graphic novel, with the working title Fit For Purpose, and illustrated by Joe Flood, will be published by FirstSecond Books, New York, in late 2010 or early 2011. My books have been published in more than 20 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain and the United States.
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Before taking up writing full-time in 1981, I co-owned and managed Notting Hill bookstore Bookends, and was manager of specialist sf bookshop Dark They Were and Golden Eyed. I was the first manager of Forbidden Planet’s original London store, and helped establish and run the New York branch.
A journalist for national and specialist publications, and the Internet, I was for six years the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for London listings magazine Time Out, and subsequently reviewed popular science titles for the magazine. My journalism has also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Film Monthly, Films & Filming, Movie, Rock Power, SFX, Sight & Sound and some seventy other publications.
I was the recipient of the Le'Fantastique Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Literature, presented at the Trolls & Legendes Festival in Mons, Belgium, 7th-8th April 2007.
I am Chair of The David Gemmell Legend Awards For Fantasy. The first presentation, which I co-hosted, took place at the headquarters of The Magic Circle in London on 19th June 2009.
I’m married to psychotherapist Anne Nicholls, who writes self-help books and journalism under that name, and sf/fantasy as Anne Gay.
