Keith John Taylor is an Australia

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n science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and fantasy

Fantasy

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 writer.

Biography

Born in Tasmania

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, Taylor now resides in Melbourne

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, Australia

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. Getting his start in Ted White's Fantastic magazine, Taylor went on to collaborate with Andrew J. Offutt on two novels based upon the Robert E. Howard hero, Cormac Mac Art. His series of novels centering around the Irish bard, Felimid mac Fal, was published throughout the 1980s. Much of Taylor's fictional output in the 1990s was in the Arthurian fantasy sub-genre. Many stories featuring his character, Kamose the Magician, were published in Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....

 in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Taylor suffered a protracted illness beginning in 2003. He is reported to be working on new fiction.

Novels

Bard

• Bard (1981)
• Bard II (1984, also known as Bard II: The First Long Ship)
• Bard III: The Wild Sea (1986)
• Bard IV: Ravens' Gathering (1987)
• Bard V: Felimid's Homecoming (1991)

Danans

• The Sorcerer's Sacred Isle (1989)
• The Cauldron of Plenty (1989)
• Search for the Starblade (1990)

Other novels

• When Death Birds Fly (1980, with Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew J. Offutt
  Andrew Jefferson Offutt is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters.-Life and family:Offutt has been married for over 50 years to Jodie McCabe...
  
  , part of the Cormac Mac Art series)
• Lances of Nengesdul (1982)
• The Tower of Death (1982, with Andrew J. Offutt, part of the Cormac Mac Art series)

Short fiction

• "Fugitives in Winter" (1975, as Dennis More) in Fantastic
  Fantastic (magazine)
  Fantastic was an American digest-size fantasy and science fiction magazine, published from 1952 to 1980. It was founded by Ziff-Davis as a fantasy companion to Amazing Stories. Early sales were good, and Ziff-Davis quickly decided to switch Amazing from pulp format to digest, and to cease...
  
  October 1975 (ed. Ted White)
• "The Atheling's Wife" (1976, as Dennis More) in Fantastic August 1976 (ed. Ted White)
• "The Forest of Andred" (1976, as Dennis More) in Fantastic November 1976 (ed. Ted White)
• "On Skellig Michael" (1977, as Dennis More) in Swords Against Darkness II
  Swords Against Darkness II
  Swords Against Darkness II is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in 1977....
  
  (ed. Andrew J. Offutt)
• "Buried Silver" (1977, as Dennis More) in Fantastic February 1977 (ed. Ted White)
• "Hungry Grass" (1979) in Swords Against Darkness V
  Swords Against Darkness V
  Swords Against Darkness V is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt. It was first published in paperback by Zebra Books in November 1979....
  
  (ed. Andrew J. Offutt)
• "Buried Silver" (Excerpt from Bard) (1981) in The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (ed. Mike Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
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• "Where Silence Rules" (1981) in Distant Worlds (ed. Paul Collins
  Paul Collins (fantasy writer)
  Paul Collins is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy.Collins has written many books for younger readers...
  
  )
• "The Lost Ship" (1983) in Frontier Worlds (ed. Paul Collins)
• "Spirit Places" (1985) in Faery! (ed. Terri Windling
  Terri Windling
  Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. Windling has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award...
  
  )
• "The Conqueror of Vectis" (1985) in Day of the Tyrant (ed. Jerry Pournelle
  Jerry Pournelle
  Jerry Eugene Pournelle is an American science fiction writer, essayist and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte and has since 1998 been maintaining his own website/blog....
  
  )
• "Men from the Plain of Lir" (1988) in Weird Tales
  Weird Tales
  Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
  
  Fall 1988 (ed. George H. Scithers
  George H. Scithers
  George H. Scithers was a science fiction fan, author, and Hugo Award winning editor.A long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society, he published a fanzine starting in the '50s, wrote short stories, and moved on to edit several prominent science fiction magazines, as well as a number of...
  
  , Darrell Schweitzer
  Darrell Schweitzer
  Darrell Charles Schweitzer is an American writer, editor, and essayist in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy...
  
  , John Gregory Betancourt
  John Gregory Betancourt
  John Gregory Betancourt is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels as well as short stories. He has worked as an assistant editor at Amazing Stories and editor of Horror: The Newsmagazine of the Horror Field, the revived Weird Tales magazine, the first issue of H. P...
  
  )
• "The Haunting of Mara" (1988) in Weird Tales Fall 1988 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)
• "The Ordeal Stone" (1988) in Weird Tales Fall 1988 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)
• "The Unlawful Hunter" (1988) in Weird Tales Spring 1988 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)
• "The Harvest of Malice" (1988) in Argos: Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1988 (ed. Ross Emry)
• "The Demon Cat" (1989) in Weird Tales Winter 1989/1990 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)
• "Revenant" (1991) in Weird Tales Winter 1991/1992 (ed. Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Spears of the Sea-Wolves" (1991) in Weird Tales Summer 1991 (ed. Darrell Schweitzer)
• "The Brotherhood of Britain" (1992) in The Camelot Chronicles: Heroic Adventures from the Time of King Arthur (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "The Castles of Testing" (1996) in The Chronicles of the Holy Grail (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "The Favour of a Tyrant" (1996) in Classical Whodunnits: Murder and Mystery from Ancient Greece and Rome (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "The Walking Walls of Rome" (1996) in Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "Sunchosen" (1996, as Cadmus Evans) in Dream Weavers
  Dream Weavers (anthology)
  Dream Weavers is a 1996 fantasy anthology edited by Paul Collins.-Background:Dream Weavers was first published in September 1996 by Penguin Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 1997 Ditmar Award for best long fiction but lost to Lucy Sussex' The Scarlet Rider. Dream...
  
  (ed. Paul Collins)
• "At the Edge of the Sea" (1996) in Dream Weavers (ed. Paul Collins)
• "The Scribe of a Hundred Lies" (1996, as Melinda Ross) in Dream Weavers (ed. Paul Collins)
• "The White Doe" (1996) in Fantasy Stories (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "Tournament of Rogues" (1997) in The Chronicles of the Round Table (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "Sir Lionel in Tournament of Rogues" (1997) in The Chronicles of the Round Table (ed. Mike Ashley)
• "The Bath-house" (1998) in Fantastic Worlds (ed. Paul Collins)
• "Daggers and a Serpent" (1999) in Weird Tales Summer 1999 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Emissaries of Doom" (1999) in Weird Tales Winter 1999 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Dragon Hunter" (1999) in Dragon Tales (ed. Paul Collins, Meredith Costain)
• "Haunted Shadows" (2000) in Weird Tales Fall 2000 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "The Lady and the Demon" (2001, with Paul Collins) in Stalking Midnight (ed. Paul Collins)
• "The Emerald Scarab" (2001) in Weird Tales Spring 2001 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Lamia" (2001) in Weird Tales Winter 2001-02 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "A Spear in the Night" (2002) in Legends of the Pendragon (ed. James Lowder
  James Lowder
  James Daniel Lowder is an American author and editor, working most often within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres.-Early life and education:...
  
  )
• "What Are You When the Moon Shall Rise?" (2002) in Weird Tales Summer 2002 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "The Company of the Gods" (2003) in Weird Tales Spring 2003 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "The Archpriest's Potion" (2003) in Weird Tales July–August 2003 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer)
• "Corpse's Wrath" (2006) in Weird Tales August–September 2006 (ed. George H. Scithers, Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt)

Source: ISFDB.com

Awards and nominations

Wins

• Ditmar Award
  Ditmar Award
  The Ditmar Award has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention to recognise achievement in Australian science fiction and science fiction fandom...
  
  , Best short Australian science fiction or fantasy, 1982: "Where Silience Rules"
• Ditmar Award, Best Australian novel, 1987: Bard III : The Wild Sea

Nominations

• Ditmar Award, Best long Australian science fiction or fantasy, 1982: Bard
• Ditmar Award, Best Australian science fiction or fantasy, 1983: Lances of Nengesdul
• Ditmar Award, Best Australian long fiction, 1988: Bard IV : Ravens' Gathering
• Ditmar Award, Best Australian long fiction, 1990: The Sorcerers' Sacred Isle
• Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story, 1997: "At the Edge of the Sea"
• Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story
  Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story
  The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers"...
  
  , 1999: "The Bath-house"