Savile, Steven
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1969- ) UK editor, Games developer and author, in Sweden from 1997, beginning to publish work of genre interest with "Coming for to Carry You Home" in Exuberance for June 1992; he also signs his name Steve Savile, and has written as by Alex Archer (a house name used for the Rogue Angel sequence), Ronan Frost and Logan Savile. Early work was assembled as Icarus Descending (coll 1999 chap) and Similar Monsters (coll 2001). Some early fantasy and horror novels (see Horror-In-Sf), beginning with Secret Life of Colors (2000), and some tales for the Warhammer universe (see Warhammer 40,000) and other similar Ties to Shared Worlds, were followed by the Equipoisal Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club series beginning with The Hollow Earth (2007 chap), in which a Pariah Elite that has been tormenting a Steampunk version of London is itself threatened by demons out of the Hollow Earth. The central character, a fallen angel, haunts the runes of the great City, hoping to find the gate back to heaven; echoes of Iain Sinclair's profoundly ironized mythologization of London are here detectable. A similar tonality infuses the Ogmios sequence beginning with Silver (2010). [JC]
Steven Savile
born Newcastle upon Tyne: 12 October 1969
works (selected)
series
Warhammer
- Inheritance (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: BL Publishing/Black Library, 2006) [tie to the Warhammer universe: Von Carstein Trilogy: pb/Andrea Uderzo]
- Dominion (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: BL Publishing/Black Library, 2006) [tie to the Warhammer universe: Von Carstein Trilogy: pb/John Gravato]
- Retribution (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire: BL Publishing/Black Library, 2006) [tie to the Warhammer universe: Von Carstein Trilogy: pb/Jeff Johnson]
Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club
- The Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Modesto, California: Bloodletting Press, 2007) [coll: Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club: pb/Daniele Serra]
- London Macabre (Portland, Oregon: Dark Regions Press, 2012) [Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club: hb/Frank Walls]
Ogmios
- Silver (Cabot, Arkansas: Variance Publishing, 2010) [Ogmios: hb/]
- Solomon's Seal (Rochester, New York: Breakneck Books, 2012) with Steve Lockley [Ogmios: pb/]
- Wargod (Rochester, New York: Breakneck Books, 2012) with Sean Ellis [Ogmios: pb/]
- Lucifer's Machine (Rochester, New York: Breakneck Books, 2013) with Rick Chesler [Ogmios: pb/]
- Ogmios: The Origins Series (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gryphonwood Press, 2013) [omni of the above three: Ogmios: pb/]
- Crucible: An Ogmios Directive Novel (UK: BadPress iNK, 2014) with Steve Lockley [Ogmios: pb/]
- Shining Ones (London: Snowbooks, 2017) with Richard Salter [Ogmios: pb/]
- Argo (London: Snowbooks, 2017) with Ashley Knight [Ogmios: pb/]
- Gold (London: Snowbooks, 2019) [Ogmios: pb/]
Stargate
- The Power Behind the Throne (Decatur, Georgia: Fandemonium Books, 2010) [tie to the Stargate SG-1 universe: Stargate SG-1: pb/Lindsay Allen]
Rogue Angel
- Grendel's Curse (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2014) as by Alex Archer [#48: Rogue Angel: pb/Tim Bradstreet]
- Celtic Fire (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2014) as by Alex Archer [#50: Rogue Angel: pb/Tim Bradstreet]
- Death Mask (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2015) as by Alex Archer [#52: Rogue Angel: pb/Tim Bradstreet]
- Day of Atonement (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2015) as by Alex Archer [#54: Rogue Angel: pb/Tim Bradstreet]
- The Mortality Principle (Toronto, Ontario: Gold Eagle Books, 2015) as by Alex Archer [#56: Rogue Angel: pb/Tim Bradstreet]
Martyrs
- Dagger of the Martyrs (UK: BadPress iNK, 2019) with William Meikle [Martyrs: pb/]
- The Wrath of the Martyrs (UK: BadPress iNK, 2021) with William Meikle [Martyrs: pb/]
individual titles
- Secret Life of Colors (Grandview, Missouri: Dark Tales Publications, 2000) [pb/]
- Laughing Boy's Shadow (Horror World, 2007) [hb/Robert Sammelin]
- Hallowed Ground (Hertford, North Carolina: Crossroad Press, 2011) with David Niall Wilson [pb/]
- Shiftling (North Webster, Indiana: Dark Fuse, 2013) [hb/]
- NDE (Hertford, North Carolina: Crossroad Press, 2014) with David Sakmyster [hb/]
- Immortal (Scotts Valley, California: CreateSpace, 2014) [pb/]
- Sunfail (New York: Akashic Books, 2015) [pb/]
- Glass Town (New York: St Martin's Press, 2017) [hb/]
- Coldfall Wood (New York: St Martin's Press, 2018) [hb/]
- White Peak (New York: St Martin's Press, 2019) as by Ronan Frost
- One Man's War (Fort Worth, Texas: Aethon Books, 2019) [hb/]
- The Silver Dead (Fort Worth, Texas: Aethon Books, 2020) [pb/]
- Mallam Cross (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2019) with T M Wright [hb/David Gentry]
collections and stories
- Icarus Descending (Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Enigmatic Press, 1999) [coll: chap: pb/Michael Gilroy]
- Similar Monsters (Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press/Cosmos Books, 2001) [coll: pb/Geoff Priest]
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