ELEMENTS OF A BIOGRAPHY
A brief summationI’m the author of more than two dozen 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 Chronicles trilogy and Wordsmiths of Wonder: Fifty Interviews With Writers of the Fantastic. I adapted David Gemmell’s Legend and Wolf in Shadow into graphic novel form, novelised TV series Dark Skies, and co-authored Gerry Anderson’s authorised biography. My Orcs: First Blood trilogy - Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder and Warriors of the Tempest - published in the UK by Gollancz, is a worldwide bestseller, with over a million copies sold as of June 2007. 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, and the first volume, Weapons of Magical Destruction, is due for publication in the UK in Autumn 2008. |
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My twenty-third book, Quicksilver Twilight, the final volume in the Quicksilver trilogy, beginning with Quicksilver Rising and Quicksilver Zenith, was published in the UK by Harper Collins/Voyager in October 2006.
My books have been published in more than 20 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain and the United States.
Before taking up writing full-time in 1981, I co-owned and managed West London bookstore Bookends, and managed specialist sf bookshop Dark They Were and Golden Eyed. I was Forbidden Planet’s first manager, 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.
I was a 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’m married to psychotherapist Anne Nicholls, who writes self-help books and journalism under that name, and sf/fantasy as Anne Gay.
