Marc Gascoigne
| Marc Gascoigne | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 July 1962 Temple Ewell with River, near Dover, Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Children's, games, science fiction, fantasy |
Marc Gascoigne (born 5 July 1962 at Temple Ewell with River, near Dover, Kent) is a British author and editor.
He is the editor, author or co-author of more than fifty books and gaming related titles, notably various Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, Shadowrun novels and adventures, Earthdawn novels and adventures, the original Games Workshop Judge Dredd roleplaying game, and material for Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu and many others listed below.
Marc Gascoigne co-wrote Games Workshop's original Judge Dredd Roleplaying Game and Puffin's mass-market Advanced Fighting Fantasy trilogy. Gascoigne also published Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. He has also written and edited for Chaosium, West End Games, and FASA.
Gascoigne was the developer or editor of several of GW's classic boardgames in the mid-1980s, including the first two editions of Blood Bowl, and created the background for Dark Future, ported onto the car-based boardgame after the cancellation of an original cyberpunk-themed roleplaying game.
Although he worked on the popular children's series Fighting Fantasy as an editor, he only ever published one gamebook as author which was called Battleblade Warrior. It was number 31 of 59 in the original series and was released in early 1988.
After ten years as a freelance editor, including time on Puffin's Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, he returned to the Nottingham-based company in 1997 to help establish the Black Library fiction imprint. Starting as editor he became publisher and overall manager of the BL Publishing family of imprints, that during a time also included Black Industries and Solaris Books.
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