Steven Savile
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Steven Savile (right) with Swedish horror writer Anders Fager at Eurocon (Swecon) in Stockholm 2011.
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| Born |
12 October 1969 Newcastle, England |
| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1999-present |
| Genre | Fantasy, Horror |
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Steven Savile (born 12 October 1969 in Newcastle, England) is a British fantasy, horror and thriller writer, and editor living just outside , Sweden. He emigrated in 1997. His published work includes novels and numerous short stories in magazines and anthologies. Savile supports the London-based football club Tottenham Hotspur.
Steven Savile started out writing and reviewing play-by-mail games in the U.K. in the late 1980s, then launched his own company, Pheonix Games (intentionally misspelled), before working for Games Workshop. He has written several novels, including Inheritance, Dominion, and Retribution, all set in the Warhammer world, as well as fiction connected to Slaine, Dr. Who, and Torchwood.
Savile has primarily made his name working in established franchises such as Star Wars, Stargate, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Fireborn, Risen, Warhammer, and Pathfinder. He's also written a number of Top Trumps facts books for kids including Dinosaurs, Creatures of the Deep, and Predators among others. He has also written a number of original novels, including the Ogmios team series which began with Silver. Savile's most successful novel to date, Silver, reached #2 on the Amazon bestseller charts and was listed by The Bookseller as one of the Top 30 bestselling digital titles of 2011.
Savile has also written and edited Doctor Who stories for Big Finish with his work featuring in The Centenarian, Snapshots, Defining Patterns, The Ghosts of Christmas and The Quality of Leadership anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology Destination Prague, the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two Sláine novels for Black Flame, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied into the universe of the British television show Primeval, for Titan Books.
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