Steven Savile
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Steven Savile is a British
fantasy
, horror
and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm
, Sweden
. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.
in 2000, short listed for the inaugural Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel, and was a Writers of the Future
winner in 2002. With his novel Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar, Savile won the Best Young Adult Original Novel for the 2009 Scribe Awards presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
He has edited and co-edited numerous anthologies, including the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke
, Brian Aldiss
, David Drake
, Jacqueline Carey
, Martha Wells
, Larry Niven
, Joe Haldeman
, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou
, Michael Marshall Smith
, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
, Brian Herbert
& Kevin J. Anderson
, and others.
Savile also writes and edits Doctor Who
stories for Big Finish
with his work featuring in The Centenarian
, Snapshots
, Defining Patterns
, The Ghosts of Christmas
and The Quality of Leadership
anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology Destination Prague
, the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two Sláine
novels for Black Flame
, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied in to the universe of the British television show Primeval
, for Titan Books.
Savile supports, London-based football club, Tottenham Hotspur.
for the show Stargate SG-1
TV series related novels:
mythos:
TV series:
short stories
written by Steven Savile:
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
fantasy
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...
, horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
and thriller writer, and editor living in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies.
Accomplishments and awards
Savile was a runner-up for the British Fantasy AwardBritish Fantasy Award
The British Fantasy Awards are administered annually by the British Fantasy Society and were first awarded in 1971. The membership of the BFS vote to determine recommendations, short-lists and winners of the awards...
in 2000, short listed for the inaugural Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel, and was a Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future
Writers of the Future is a science fiction and fantasy story contest that was originated by L. Ron Hubbard in the early 1980s. Hubbard...
winner in 2002. With his novel Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar, Savile won the Best Young Adult Original Novel for the 2009 Scribe Awards presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
He has edited and co-edited numerous anthologies, including the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
, Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss, OBE is an English author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W. Aldiss or simply Brian Aldiss. Greatly influenced by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells, Aldiss is a vice-president of the international H. G. Wells Society...
, David Drake
David Drake
David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
, Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey is an author and novelist, primarily of fantasy fiction.-Life:She attended Lake Forest College, receiving B.A.'s in psychology and English literature. During college, she spent 6 months working in a bookstore in London as part of a work exchange program. While there, she decided...
, Martha Wells
Martha Wells
-Biography:Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories...
, Larry Niven
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...
, Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou
Stel Pavlou
Stelios Grant Pavlou is a British author and screenwriter.-Biography:Stel Pavlou was born in Gillingham, Kent in England, of Greek Cypriot descent. He grew up in Rochester and Chatham, Medway and attended Chatham Grammar School for Boys. The middle child of three, his younger brother is the...
, Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...
, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer.-Profile:Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in 1983...
, Brian Herbert
Brian Herbert
Brian Patrick Herbert is an American author who lives in Washington state. He is the elder son of science fiction author Frank Herbert....
& Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson is an American science fiction author with over forty bestsellers. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E., and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequels...
, and others.
Savile also writes and edits Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
stories for Big Finish
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
with his work featuring in The Centenarian
Short Trips: The Centenarian
Short Trips: The Centenarian is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection follows the life of a man, Edward Grainger, from his birth through to his death and explores the history of the...
, Snapshots
Short Trips: Snapshots
Short Trips: Snapshots is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Joseph Lidster and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, Defining Patterns
Short Trips: Defining Patterns
Short Trips: Defining Patterns is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, The Ghosts of Christmas
Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas
Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set at Christmas in the past, present and future...
and The Quality of Leadership
Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership
Short Trips: The Quality of Leadership is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology Destination Prague
Short Trips: Destination Prague
Short Trips: Destination Prague is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Steven Savile and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set in the future of Prague.-Stories:...
, the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two Sláine
Sláine (comics)
Sláine is a comic hero from the pages of 2000 AD - one of Britain's most popular comic books.Sláine is a barbarian fantasy adventure series based on Celtic myths and stories which first appeared in 1983, written by Pat Mills and initially drawn by his then wife, Angela Kincaid. Most of the early...
novels for Black Flame
Black Flame
Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. Black Flame was devoted to publishing cult fiction in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror...
, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied in to the universe of the British television show Primeval
Primeval
Primeval or primæval may refer to:* Primeval, a British science fiction television series.* Primeval , a 2007 film* Primeval , a score of music from the BBC TV series Doctor Who...
, for Titan Books.
Savile supports, London-based football club, Tottenham Hotspur.
Novels
- The Secret Life of Colors (2000)
- Laughing Boy's Shadow (2003 and 2007)
- London Macabre (forthcoming 2011 - Polish language original)
- Silver (AKA 'Silver: an Ogmios Adventure')
- The Black Chalice (2011)
- Hallowed Ground (co-written with David Niall Wilson) (2011)
- Gold (AKA 'Gold: an Ogmios Adventure')' (forthcoming 2011)
The Lay of Sláine Mac Roth
Novels featuring the Celtic warrior known as Sláine Mac Roth:- Sláine the Exile (2006)
- Sláine the Defiler (2007)
Primeval related
Primeval TV series related novels:- Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar (2008)
Stargate SG-1 related
Stargate literatureStargate literature
Stargate literature comprises the novels and short stories in the Stargate franchise fictional universe as well as non-fiction devoted to the franchise...
for the show Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...
TV series related novels:
- Stargate SG-1: The Power Behind the Throne (forthcoming, May 2010)
Warhammer related
Books based in the Warhammer FantasyWarhammer Fantasy (setting)
Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...
mythos:
- Curse of the Necrarch (2008)
Warhammer Von Carstein Trilogy
- Inheritance (2006)
- Dominion (2006)
- Retribution (2007)
- Vampire Wars (2008), omnibus anthologyAnthologyAn anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
of the trilogy
- Vampire Wars (2008), omnibus anthology
Torchwood related
Stories related to the TorchwoodTorchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
TV series:
- Torchwood: HiddenHidden (Torchwood)Hidden is a BBC Audio original audiobook written by Steven Savile and based on the British science fiction television, Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood. It was released on 4 February 2008. The story is set during the first series of the show...
(2008) (audiobook original) - Black Water appeared in the Torchwood Yearbook (2008)
- 'Gordian' parts I & II appeared in the Torchwood MagazineTorchwood MagazineTorchwood - The Official Magazine is a British magazine devoted to the BBC science fiction television series Torchwood. The first issue was released on 24 January 2008. The United States version was due to be launched in February 2008...
(2009)
Novellas
- Icarus Descending (2000)
- Houdini's Last Illusion (2004)
- Temple: Incarnations (2007)
- The Hollow Earth (2007) (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
- Monster Town/The Butcher of Box Hill - an Ace Double-style front-to-back novella co-written with Brian M. Logan under the pseudonym "Logan Savile" (Bad Moon BooksBad Moon BooksBad Moon Books is a publishing company owned by Roy K. Robbins in Garden Grove, California. In the middle of 1986, they began as a bookseller only, but in 2007 they began publishing. Their works include many Black Quill Award and Bram Stoker Award winners and nominees...
, 2010) - "Traitor's Heir" (2011) - first part of Traitor's Moon in the Moonland Diaries series
Doctor Who related
Doctor WhoDoctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
written by Steven Savile:
- "Falling From Xi'an" - appeared in the anthology Short Trips: The CentenarianShort Trips: The CentenarianShort Trips: The Centenarian is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection follows the life of a man, Edward Grainger, from his birth through to his death and explores the history of the...
- "The Sorrows of Vienna" - appeared in the anthology Short Trips: SnapshotsShort Trips: SnapshotsShort Trips: Snapshots is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Joseph Lidster and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
- "Loose Change" - appeared in the anthology Short Trips: Defining PatternsShort Trips: Defining PatternsShort Trips: Defining Patterns is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
- "The Stars Our Contamination" - appeared in the anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of ChristmasShort Trips: The Ghosts of ChristmasShort Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set at Christmas in the past, present and future...
- "Peaceable Kingdom" - appeared in the anthology Short Trips: The Quality of LeadershipShort Trips: The Quality of LeadershipShort Trips: The Quality of Leadership is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
Uncollected Short stories
- "The Horned Man" - appeared in the anthology Boondocks Fantasy
- "London on the Brink of Never" - appeared in the anthology Spells of the City
- "Dear Prudence" - appeared in the anthology Blood Lite
- "Mens Rea" - appeared in the anthology Aegri SomniaAegri SomniaAegri Somnia is an anthology of horror stories edited by Jason Sizemore and Gill Ainsworth and published by Apex Books. The twelve stories in this collection were all written by different authors...
- "Ghosts of Love" - first appeared in the anthology Touched By Wonder (A Thera Story) - reprinted in Worlds of Their Own, edited by James Lowder
- "Night of Falling Stars" - appeared in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine ShowOrson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine ShowOrson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.Originally published in paperback by Tor Books in August 2008 , It contains eighteen stories from Card's online magazine InterGalactic Medicine Show including four from Card set in his...
(A Thera Story) - "The Song Her Heart Sang" - appeared in the anthology The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (A Thera Story)
- "Idiot Hearts" - appeared in the anthology Poe's Progeny
- "A Madness of Ravens" - appeared in the anthology Daikaiju!3 (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
- "Lies of the Flesh" - appeared in the anthology Invasion!Invasion!Invasion! can refer to either of two comic book related events:* Invasion! * Invasion! In film:*Invasion! or Invasion is the DVD retitling of John Paizs's Top of the Food ChainIn theatre:...
, a Warhammer FantasyWarhammer Fantasy (setting)Warhammer Fantasy is a fantasy setting, created by Games Workshop, which is used by many of the company's games. Some of the best-known games set in this world are: the table top wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay pen-and-paper role-playing game, and the MMORPG...
anthology - "Death's Cold Kiss" - appeared in the anthology The Cold Hand of Betrayal
- "The Angel With The Sad Eyes" - appeared in the anthology Eulogies
- "Absence of Divinity" - appeared in the anthology Vivisections
- "Memories in Glass" - appeared in the anthology The AsylumThe AsylumThe Asylum is an American film studio and distributor which focuses on producing low-budget, usually direct-to-video productions. The studio has produced titles that capitalize on productions by major studios; these titles have been dubbed "mockbusters" by the press.-History:The Asylum was founded...
Non-fiction
- Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction (2010) (non-fiction: essays on contemporary genre television)
As editor
- Redbrick Eden: Scaremongers 2 (1999)
- Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) (co-edited with Alethea KontisAlethea KontisAlethea Kontis is an American author and editor living in Ashburn, Virginia. Her children's picture book, AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First was published by Candlewick Press in 2006, followed by H Is for Halloween in 2010. She shares credit for The Dark-Hunter Companion with Sherrilyn Kenyon, whose...
) - Black Gondolier and Other Stories (2003) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz LeiberFritz LeiberFritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
part one (co-edited with John PelanJohn PelanJohn C. Pelan is an American author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres.He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea and James P. Blaylock. Following this, he...
) - Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions (2004) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part two (co-edited with John Pelan)
- Short Trips: Destination PragueShort Trips: Destination PragueShort Trips: Destination Prague is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Steven Savile and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set in the future of Prague.-Stories:...
(2007) Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
Short TripsBig Finish Short TripsThe Big Finish Short Trips are a collection of short story anthologies published by Big Finish Productions based on the BBC Television series Doctor Who, beginning with the collection Short Trips: Zodiac in December 2002 and ending with the loss of their license in 2009...
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