Adam Christopher

Adam Christopher
BornAdam Christopher McGechan
(1978-02-02) 2 February 1978 (age 46)
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 known for his genre fiction. Born in New Zealand, he moved to North West England in 2006, where he lives with his wife.

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

  • Seven Wonders (September 2012 – ISBN 978 0 85766 195 1 [UK] | ISBN 978 0 85766 196 8 [US], Angry Robot)
  • Hang Wire (2014, Angry Robot)

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)

References

  1. ^ "Internet Speculative Fiction Database"
  2. ^ [1] 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.