Cole, Myke
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Shouting Down the Moon" in The Book of Final Flesh (anth 2003) edited by James Lowder, which appeared more or less simultaneously with his first novel, Car Trouble (2003), a Tie to the Wildsidhe Chronicles Shared World fantasy sequence. He is of sf interest for the Equipoisal Shadow Ops series comprising Control Point (2012) – which won the Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award for best first genre novel – Fortress Frontier (2013), Breach Zone (2014) and the prequel Gemini Cell (2015), set in a Near Future America where Mutants with Magic Superpowers are treated as morally loathsome and expungible. Much of the action exploits Military SF tropes with a character-thin simplicity evocative of a Computer Wargame, though the tale eventually focuses on and climaxes in New York, seen in terms of Urban Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]; the great City, not for the first time, is saved by Superheroes. [JC]
Myke Cole
born New York City
works
series
Shadow Ops
- Control Point (New York: Ace Books, 2012) [Shadow Ops: pb/Michael Komarck]
- Fortress Frontier (London: Headline, 2013) [Shadow Ops: pb/Larry Rostant]
- Breach Zone (London: Headline, 2014) [Shadow Ops: pb/Larry Rostant]
- Gemini Cell (London: Headline, 2015) [Shadow Ops: pb/Larry Rostant]
- Javelin Rain (New York: Ace Books, 2016) [Shadow Ops: pb/Larry Rostant]
- Siege Line (New York: Ace Books, 2017) [Shadow Ops: Reawakening: pb/Larry Rostant]
Sacred Throne
- The Armored Saint (New York: Tor.com, 2018) [hb/Tommy Arnold]
- The Queen of Crows (New York: Tor.com, 2018) [hb/Tommy Arnold]
- The Killing Light (New York: Tor.com, 2019) [hb/Chris McGrath]
individual titles
- Car Trouble (Padwolf Publishing, 2003) [tie in the Wildsidhe Chronicles Shared World sequence: pb/]
links
- Myke Cole
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Urban Fantasy
- Picture Gallery
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