Jeapes, Ben
Entry updated 26 October 2021. Tagged: Author.
(1965- ) UK author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Digital Cats Come Out Tonight" (in Digital Dreams, anth 1990, ed David V Barrett), and who has since published frequently in Interzone. His novels have been directed to Young Adult markets, and include the His Majesty's Spaceship sequence comprising His Majesty's Spaceship (1998; vt The Ark 2000) and The Xenocide Mission (2002), in which a generally rational human race is brought into an intergalactic Commonwealth full of Alien civilizations, some friendly, some not. Jeapes displays throughout a Xenobiological flair quite evocative of the work of Larry Niven. Singletons include Winged Chariot (2000; vt Time's Chariot 2008), in which a Dystopian Earth, under the control of Time Police, faces the end of temporal stability; and The New World Order (2004), an Alternate History set in a seventeenth-century England invaded by Aliens. Under the House Name Sebastian Rook he wrote the first three Vampire Plagues tales, London (2004), Paris (2004) and Mexico (2005). [JC]
Ben Jeapes
born Belfast, Northern Ireland: 14 February 1965
works
series
His Majesty's Spaceship
- His Majesty's Spaceship (London: Scholastic Press, 1998) [His Majesty's Spaceship: pb/]
- The Ark (New York: Scholastic, 2000) [vt of the above: His Majesty's Spaceship: pb/]
- The Xenocide Mission (Oxford, Oxfordshire: David Fickling Books, 2002) [His Majesty's Spaceship: hb/]
Vampire Plagues
- Vampire Plagues: London (London: Scholastic UK, 2004) as by Sebastian Rook [House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Plagues: London, 1850 (New York: Scholastic/Apple, 2005) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/Cliff Nielsen]
- Vampire Dusk: London (London: Scholastic, 2009) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Plagues: Paris (London: Scholastic UK, 2004) as by Sebastian Rook [House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Plagues: Paris, 1850 (New York: Scholastic/Apple, 2004) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Dusk: Paris (London: Scholastic, 2009) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Plagues: Mexico (London: Scholastic UK, 2004) as by Sebastian Rook [House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Plagues: Mexico, 1850 (New York: Scholastic/Apple, 2004) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
- Vampire Dusk: London (London: Scholastic, 2009) as by Sebastian Rook [vt of the above: House Name: Vampire Plagues: pb/]
Ted Gorse
- The Teen, The Witch and the Thief (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2016) [Ted Gorse: pb/]
- The Comeback of the King (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2016) [Ted Gorse: pb/]
individual titles
- Wingèd Chariot (London: Scholastic Press, 2000) [pb/]
- Time's Chariot (London: Random House UK/David Fickling Books, 2008) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The New World Order (London: Random House UK/David Fickling Books, 2004) [hb/]
- End Game (London: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006) [coll: pb/]
- Phoenicia's Worlds (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: Rebellion/Solaris, 2013) [pb/Dominic Harman]
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