Adam Christopher

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Adam Christopher
BornAdam Christopher McGechan
(1978-02-02) 2 February 1978 (age 45)
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealander/British
Period2008–present
GenreScience fiction
Superhero fiction
Urban fantasy
Horror fiction
Crime fiction
Website
www.adamchristopher.me

Adam Christopher McGechan (born 2 February 1978 in Auckland, New Zealand), [1] who writes under the name Adam Christopher, is a New York Times Bestselling novelist. Born in New Zealand, he moved to North West England in 2006, where he lives with his wife.

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Career

Christopher has released several books through Angry Robot and Tor Books. [2] He has also worked as an editor for nine issues of Time/Space Visualiser, the journal of the New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club, from 2003 to 2009. [3] In 2010, he won a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Fan Publication for TSV. [4] [5]

Bibliography

Standalone novels

Series

Empire State

Ray Electromatic Mysteries

"Brisk Money" is a novelette published by Tor.com in 2014 set in the same universe of the Ray Electromatic Mysteries.

  • Made to Kill (2015, Tor Books)
  • Standard Hollywood Depravity (2017, Tor Books)
  • Killing Is My Business (2017, Tor Books)
  • I Only Killed Him Once (2018, Tor Books)

Spider Wars

  • The Burning Dark (2014, originally titled Shadow's Call, Tor Books)
  • The Machine Awakes (2015, originally titled The Jovian Conspiracy, Tor Books) [6] [7] [8] [9]

"Cold War" is a novelette published by Tor.com in 2014 set in the same universe of the Spider Wars series.

Tie-in fiction

Dishonored

  • Dishonored: The Corroded Man (September 27, 2016, Titan Books)
  • Dishonored: The Return of Daud (March 27, 2018, Titan Books)
  • Dishonored: The Veiled Terror (2018, Titan Books)

Elementary

  • Elementary: The Ghost Line (2015, Titan Books)
  • Elementary: Blood and Ink (2016, Titan Books)

Stranger Things

  • Stranger Things: Darkness on the Edge of Town (2019, Del Rey)

Star Wars

  • "End of Watch" in Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View (2017, Del Rey)
  • "The Witness" in Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (2020, Del Rey)
  • Shadow of the Sith (2022, Del Rey)

Comics

Dark Circle Comics/Archie Comics

Star Wars Adventures

Lazarus

  • Ganymede in Lazarus: Rising #2 (prose short story, illustrated by Michael Lark, July 24, 2019)

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References

  1. "Internet Speculative Fiction Database"
  2. Archived 30 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine adamchristopher.co.uk, 23 April 2012
  3. "TSV Online Archive"
  4. "Sir Julius Vogel Award Results – 2010"
  5. "Detective Tale with a Robotic Twist" Interview with the New Zealand Herald, 3 April 2012
  6. "'The Machine Awakes' - A Sci-Fi Military Thriller Whodunit". GeekDad. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  7. "Fiction Book Review: The Machine Awakes by Adam Christopher. Tor, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7640-4". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  8. "The Machine Awakes by Adam Christopher (book review)". SFcrowsnest. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
  9. "Science Fiction: the latest must-reads". Toronto Star. Retrieved 27 May 2016.