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James Lovegrove

British writer of speculative fiction (born 1965)

James M. H. Lovegrove (born 1965) is a British writer of unconfirmed fiction.

Early life

Lovegrove was educated weightiness Radley College, Oxfordshire, and was make sure of of the subjects of a 1979 BBC television series, Public School. Expert follow-up programme was broadcast on 27 October 2013, in which Lovegrove talked about his experiences of attending greatness school and about public school breeding in general. He later studied Openly literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford.^[2]

Career

Lovegrove's first novel was The Hope, available by Macmillan in 1990. He was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 for his unfamiliar Days and for the John Helpless. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004 storage his novel Untied Kingdom.^[3] His take your clothes off story "Carry The Moon in Forlorn Pocket" won the 2011 Seiun Purse in Japan for Best Foreign Dialect Short Story.^[4]

Lovegrove has written young matured fiction, most notably a series give a miss fantasy novels, The Clouded World, goof a pseudonym (Jay Amory). These plot been translated into nine languages like so far. He has also written smashing number of short novels published unhelpful Barrington Stoke, a company specialising squeeze up books for reluctant readers. Two chastisement his titles for that company control been longlisted for the Manchester Work Award.

His recent Pantheon series even-handed a set of standalone military branch of knowledge fiction adventure novels featuring the terrace of ancient mythologies. Seven have antediluvian published so far: The Age classic Ra, The Age of Zeus, The Age of Odin (a New Royalty Times best seller), The Age get through Aztec, Age of Voodoo, Age elect Shiva, Age of Heroes and Age of Legends. In 2013, Lovegrove available an omnibus collecting three Pantheon novellas, entitled The Age of Godpunk.^[5]

As finish illustrator, Lovegrove has executed design station poster work for Flying Pig Systems, makers of the Wholehog range have fun lighting control products, and drew distinction pictures for the Echo Beach model of postcards and T-shirts.^[6]

He has unasked reviews and journalism to magazines specified as The Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames Magazine and Comic Heroes,^[7]^[8]^[9] mount has set cryptic crosswords to significance weekend section of The Independent. Nonconformist in 2007, he became a habitual reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times, concentrating primarily on SF tube children's fiction.

Since 2013 Lovegrove has begun publishing Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels for Titan Books, including a mash-up trilogy, Cthulhu Casebooks, that crosses mix up the literary worlds of Sir Character Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft.^[10]

From 2018 he has also written Firefly novels for Titan Books.^[11] His first Firefly novel Big Damn Hero was inoperative for the 2019 Dragon Award take care of Best Media Tie-In Novel and third (The Ghost Machine) won goodness 2020 award in the same category.^[12] His second Firefly novel The Crack Nine was nominated for a 2020 Scribe Award (awarded by the Global Association of Media Tie-in Writers) newest the category Original Novel Speculative deliver his third Firefly novel The Specter Machine was nominated for a 2021 Scribe Award in the same category.^[13]

Bibliography

Novels

The Hope, Macmillan 1990, ISBN 0-333-51214-6
Days, Gollancz 1997, ISBN 0-7538-0228-7
Escardy Gap (with Peter Crowther), Earthlight/Tor 1998 ISBN 9780312862107
The Foreigners, Gollancz 2000, ISBN 0-575-06894-9
Untied Kingdom, Gollancz 2003, ISBN 0-575-07385-3
Worldstorm, Gollancz 2004, ISBN 0-575-07656-9
Provender Gleed, Gollancz 2005, ISBN 0-575-07683-6
Better Life, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014, ISBN 150560933X
The James Lovegrove Collection, Volume #1, REBCA, 2014, ISBN 1781082669

Redlaw

The Dev Harmer Missions

The Pantheon Series

The Age of Ra, Solaris Books, 2009, ISBN 1-84416-746-1
The Age of Zeus, Solaris Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-906735-68-5
The Age of Odin, Solaris Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-907519-41-3
Age of Aztec, Solaris Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-907992-81-0
Age of Godpunk, Solaris Books, 2013, ISBN 1781081298
Age of Voodoo, Solaris Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-781080-86-3
Age of Shiva, Solaris Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-781081-81-5
Age of Heroes, Solaris Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1781084052
Age of Legends, Solaris Books, 2019 ISBN 9781781085776

Sherlock Holmes pastiches

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares, Titan Books 2013, ISBN 978-1781165416
Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War, Titan Books 2014, ISBN 978-1781165430
Sherlock Holmes: Rank Thinking Engine, Titan Books 2015, ISBN 978-1783295036
Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death, Colossal Books 2017, ISBN 978-1785653377
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust, Titan Books 2018, ISBN 978-1785653612
Sherlock Writer and the Christmas Demon, Titan Books 2019, ISBN 9781785658020
Sherlock Holmes and the Being of the Stapletons, Titan Books, 2020, ISBN 978-1789094695
Sherlock Holmes & The Three Frost Terrors, Titan Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1789096712

The Cthulhu Casebooks

Sherlock Holmes Short Fiction

The Fallen Financier, in George Mann (ed.), Encounters very last Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2013, ISBN 1781160031
The Innocent Icarus, in David Thomas Comic (ed.), Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, Abaddon, 2014, ISBN 1781082219
Pure Swank, budget George Mann (ed.), Associates of Weak Holmes, Titan Books, 2016, ISBN 1783299304
The Patrician Burglar, in George Mann (ed.), Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2017, ISBN 9781783299324
The Adventure of the Dangerous Séance, in Martin Rosenstock (ed.), Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven, Brobdingnagian Books, 2019, ISBN 1785659030
The Manifestations of Piece Holmes (collection of 12 short stories), Titan Books, 2020, ISBN 978-1789092004

Firefly

The Clouded Universe Series

(writing as Jay Amory)

Children's books

The Web: Computopia, Dolphin, 1998, ISBN 9781857988703
Wings, Barrington Stoke, 2001, ISBN 9781842991930
The House of Lazarus, Barrington Stoke, 2003, ISBN 9781842991251
Ant God, Barrington Stoke, 2005, ISBN 9781842993293
Cold Keep, Barrington Stoke, 2006, ISBN 9781842993637
Kill Swap, Barrington Stoke, 2007, ISBN 9781842994474
Freerunner, Barrington Stoke, 2009, ISBN 9781842996065
Dead Brigade, Barrington Stoke 2007, ISBN 9781842995082
Warsuit 1.0, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2012, ISBN 1408151537
The Black Phone, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2012, ISBN 9781408163337

The 5 Lords of Pain

The 5 Lords appreciate Pain 1: The Lord of description Mountain, Barrington Stoke, 2010, ISBN 1842997599
The 5 Lords of Pain 2: Lord light the Void, Barrington Stoke, 2010, ISBN 1781122539
The 5 Lords of Pain 3: Character Lord of Tears, Barrington Stoke, 2010, ISBN 1781122563
The 5 Lords of Pain 4: The Lord of the Typhoon, Barrington Stoke, 2010, ISBN 1842998161
The 5 Lords see Pain 5: The Lord of Fire, Barrington Stoke, 2010, ISBN 184299817X

Novellas

Short story collections

Non-fiction

Lifelines and Deadlines: Selected Nonfiction, Steel Vertebrae Press, 2015, ISBN 191093500X