Jeapes, Ben

Entry updated 23 January 2023. 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). He has also ghostwritten nonfantastic children's adventures published under the name of a celebrity who takes sole credit. [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]

links

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