Gallant, Craig
Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US teacher and author, most of whose fiction is contained in the Wild West Exodus over-series of Alternate-World Steampunk Westerns beginning with the first volume of the Shared World Jesse James Archives subseries, Honor Among Outlaws (2013), based on a Wargame, in which James and Billy the Kid trade high-tech blows as they vie for control of a shattered America. In Bastion (2014), Secret Masters hidden in a remote Keep attempt to keep humanity safe from dark forces. Cold Hearts (2016) introduces Lucinda Loveless, agent for a beleaguered railroad company, to the two charismatic antiheroes.
Rise of the Alchemist (2021), a singleton, traverses regions not unlike the territories ransacked in his main series: an Alternate History nineteenth century land, the Jonbar Point of the tale being the failure of the American revolution. The action, which takes place in the kingdom of Albion, involves Magic, the Equipoisal implications of this complication not being seriously examined. [JC]
Craig Gallant
born Milford, New Hampshire
works (selected)
series
Wild West Exodus: The Jesse James Archives
- Honor Among Outlaws (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2013) [Wild West Exodus: The Jesse James Archives: pb/Michael Nigro]
- Abundant Riches (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2014) [Wild West Exodus: The Jesse James Archives: pb/]
Wild West Exodus
- Bastion (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2014) [Wild West Exodus: pb/]
- Family Blood (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2015) [Wild West Exodus: pb/]
Wild West Exodus: The Lucinda Loveless Chronicles
- Cold Hearts (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2016) [Wild West Exodus: The Lucinda Loveless Chronicles: pb/]
- Unearthly Powers (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2016) [Wild West Exodus: The Lucinda Loveless Chronicles: pb/]
individual titles
- The Legacy of Shadow (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books, 2016) [pb/]
- Rise of the Alchemist (New York: Simon and Schuster/Zmok Books/Point Pleasant, New Jersey: Winged Hussar Publishing, 2021) [pb/]
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