Christopher, Adam
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of New Zealand-born author Adam Christopher McGechan (1978- ), in the UK from 2006, who began publishing work of genre interest with "The Devil in Chains, Part One" in Pantechnicon for September 2008, soon followed by "The Devil in Chains, Part Two" (March 2009 Pantechnicon). His first novel, Empire State (2012), is a noir thriller set in a retro Alternate World or Pocket Universe version of New York, the Amnesia of whose citizens comes from the fact that the whole of this alternate reality has been inadvertently created (see Philip K Dick; Virtual Reality) by battling Superheroes; the Empire State sequence continues in The Age Atomic (2013). The Burning Dark (2014), also noir in tone, is set aboard an obsolete space station whose claustrophobic chambers and passages seem haunted by some Alien presence; this novel opens the Spider War sequence. A further sequence has been initiated with The Ray Electromatic Mysteries, beginning with Brisk Money (23 July 2014 Tor.com; 2014 ebook), being noir crime thrillers set in an Alternate World California and featuring a lonely Robot private eye somewhat reminiscent of the robots found frequently in the work of Ron Goulart, though the style of the sequence deliberately and explicitly homages Raymond Chandler (1888-1959); the robot's name is in fact Raymond. [JC/DRL]
Adam Christopher McGechan
born Auckland, New Zealand: 2 February 1978
works
series
Empire State
- Empire State (London: Angry Robot, 2012) [Empire State: pb/Will Staehle]
- The Age Atomic (London: Angry Robot, 2013) [Empire State: hb/Will Staehle]
Spider War
- The Burning Dark (London: Pan Macmillan/Tor UK, 2014) [Spider War: hb/Will Staehle]
- Cold War (New York: Tor.com, 2014) [story: ebook: Spider War: na/Victor Mosquera]
- The Machine Awakes (London: Pan Macmillan/Tor UK, 2015) [Spider War: hb/Will Staehle]
- The Dead Stars (London: Titan Books, 2017) [Spider War: pb/]
Ray Electromatic Mysteries
- Brisk Money (New York: Tor.com, 2014) [novella: ebook: first appeared 23 July 2014 Tor.com: Ray Electromatic Mysteries: na/Gerard Dubois]
- Standard Hollywood Depravity (New York: Tor.com, 2017) [novella: ebook: Ray Electromatic Mysteries: na/Will Staehle]
Ray Electromatic Mysteries: LA Trilogy
- Made to Kill (New York: Tor, 2015) [Ray Electromatic Mysteries: LA Trilogy: hb/Will Staehle]
- Killing Is My Business (New York: Tor, 2017) [Ray Electromatic Mysteries: LA Trilogy: hb/Will Staehle]
- I Only Killed Him Once (New York: Tor, 2018) [Ray Electromatic Mysteries: LA Trilogy: hb/Will Staehle]
Dishonored
- Dishonored: The Corroded Man (New York: Titan Books, 2016) [tie to the game: Dishonored: pb/]
- Dishonored: The Return of Daud (New York: Titan Books, 2018) [tie to the game: Dishonored: pb/]
- Dishonored: The Veiled Terror (New York: Titan Books, 2018) [tie to the game: Dishonored: pb/]
individual titles
- Seven Wonders (London: Angry Robot, 2012) [pb/Will Staehle]
- Hang Wire (London: Angry Robot, 2014) [hb/Will Staehle]
- Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town (New York: Del Rey, 2019) [tie to the tv series: hb/Rich Davies]
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