Rowley, Christopher
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1948- ) US author whose career began with efficiently written Military SF novels, beginning with the War for Eternity/Fenrille sequence – The War for Eternity (1983), The Black Ship (1985), The Founder (1989) and To a Highland Nation (1993) – which concentrates on warfare within our solar system, though the inhabitants of at least one outlying Space Habitat are involved in interstellar exploration. The Vang sequence – Starhammer (1986), The Vang: The Military Form (1988) and The Vang: The Battlemaster (1990) – moves into interstellar space and features a deadly Alien lifeform. With George Snow (anon) he wrote the Star Wars text Return of the Jedi (1983 chap), one of his few individual titles; in Golden Sunlands (1987) the humans on a colony planet are kidnapped to serve as cannon fodder in a complex war within a vast Dyson Sphere, but soon show their spunk. After the Bazil Broketail sequence of fantasies beginning with Bazil Broketail (1992) and ending with Dragon Ultimate (1999), and the Arna sequence, beginning with The Ancient Enemy: The First Book of Arna (2000) and ending with Doom's Break: The Third Book of Arna (2002), he returned to sf with the ongoing Heavy Metal Pulp sequence, beginning with Heavy Metal Pulp: Pleasure Model (2010). These are heavily illustrated Near Future noir thrillers set in a decadent New York, much of the action revolving around an Android Sex worker who seems to be the repository of dread secrets. [JC]
Christopher B Rowley
born Lynn, Massachusetts: 1948
works
series
War for Eternity/Fenrille
- The War for Eternity (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1983) [War for Eternity/Fenrille: pb/Ralph McQuarrie]
- The Black Ship (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1985) [War for Eternity/Fenrille: pb/Ralph McQuarrie]
- The Founder (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1989) [War for Eternity/Fenrille: pb/Stephen Hickman]
- To a Highland Nation (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1993) [War for Eternity/Fenrille: pb/Bob Eggleton]
Vang
- Starhammer (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1986) [Vang: pb/David Schleinkofer]
- The Vang: The Military Form (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1988) [Vang: pb/Stephen Hickman]
- The Vang: The Battlemaster (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1990) [Vang: pb/Stephen Hickman]
Bazil Broketail
- Bazil Broketail (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1992) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- A Sword for a Dragon (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1993) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- Dragons of War (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1994) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- Battledragon (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1995) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- The Wizard and the Floating City (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1996) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- A Dragon at World's End (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1997) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- Dragons of Argonath (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1998) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
- Dragon Ultimate (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1999) [Bazil Broketail: pb/Daniel Horne]
Arna
- The Ancient Enemy: The First Book of Arna (New York: Penguin/Roc, 2000) [Arna: pb/Duane Myers]
- The Shasht War: The Second Book of Arna (New York: Penguin/Roc, 2001) [Arna: pb/Duane Myers]
- Doom's Break: The Third Book of Arna The Second Book of Arna (New York: Penguin/Roc, 2002) [Arna: pb/Duane Myers]
Heavy Metal Pulp
- Heavy Metal Pulp: Pleasure Model: Netherworld Book One (New York: Tor, 2010) [tie to Heavy Metal magazine: Heavy Metal Pulp: pb/Gregory Manchess]
- Heavy Metal Pulp: The Bloodstained Man: Netherworld Book Two (New York: Tor, 2010) [tie to Heavy Metal magazine: Heavy Metal Pulp: illus/Justin Norman: pb/Gregory Manchess]
- Heavy Metal Pulp: Money Shot: Netherworld Book Three (New York: Tor, 2010) [tie to Heavy Metal magazine: Heavy Metal Pulp: pb/Gregory Manchess]
individual titles
- Golden Sunlands (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1987) [pb/Ralph McQuarrie]
- Arkham Woods (Los Angeles, California: Seven Seas, 2009) [graph: illus/pb/Jhomar Soriano]
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