George Mann

This article is about the science fiction writer. For other people of the same name, see George Mann (disambiguation) .

George Mann (born December 22, 1978 in Darlington , County Durham ) is a British science fiction writer, editor, lexicographer and comic book scenarist . He is known as the author of the Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and the steampunk series about investigators Newbury and Hobbes.

Life

Mann's first book was the ambitious project of a comprehensive science fiction lexicon: The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction was published in 2001 and contained the four parts on 606 pages

• Science Fiction on the Page (authors, magazines),
• Science Fiction on the Screen (films and TV series),
• Terms, Themes and Devices in Science Fiction and
• Societies and Awards .

As a science fiction writer, he debuted with the space opera The Human Abstract (2004), followed by two novels from the environment of the British television series Doctor Who settled Time Hunter series of Telos Publishing ( The Severed Man , 2004, and Child of Time , 2007, with David J. Howe) Other works by Mann in the Doctor Who universe are the novels Paradox Lost (2011) and Engines of War (2014), as well as two non-fiction books about the universe of the Doctor and about the Daleks together with Justin Richards, as well as several comic book scenarios and an audio book.

He made a name for himself as a steampunk author with the series about investigators Newbury and Hobbes, who go in search of serial killers and other criminals in a fantastically alienated London. The first novel in the series ( The Affinity Bridge ) was published in 2008. Another series, The Ghost , is set a few decades later in a post-steampunk version of New York in the 1920s.

More books by Mann are set in the world of Warhammer 40,000 . He was the editor of a series of science fiction and fantasy anthologies for Solaris Books , founded in 2007 as the imprint of a subsidiary of Games Workshop , the maker of Warhammer 40,000 , which also includes The Black Library , where Mann's Warhammer 40,000 Audio books appeared. Other anthologies included stories with the character of the detective Sexton Blake and Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes .

Husband lives with wife and children in Nottinghamshire .

Works

Novels

• The Human Abstract (Telos, 2004, ISBN 1-903889-65-0 )
• Wychwood (Titan Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78329-409-1 )

Time Hunter

• The Severed Man (# 5, Telos, 2004, ISBN 1-903889-43-X )
• with David J. Howe: Child of Time (# 11, Telos, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84583-104-2 )

Newbury & Hobbes

• The Affinity Bridge (Snowbooks, 2008, ISBN 978-1-905005-88-8 )
• The Osiris Ritual (Snowbooks, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906727-04-8 )
• The Immorality Engine (Snowbooks, 2011, ISBN 978-1-906727-18-5 )
• The Executioner's Heart (Titan Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78116-005-3 )
• The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes (Titan Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78116-742-7 )
• The Revenant Express (Titan Books, 2018, ISBN 978-1-78116-006-0 )

The ghost

• Ghosts of Manhattan (Pyr, 2010, ISBN 978-1-61614-194-3 )
• Ghosts of War (Pyr, 2011, ISBN 978-1-61614-367-1 )
• Ghosts of Karnak (Titan Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78329-416-9 )
• Ghosts of Empire (Titan Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78329-418-3 )

Doctor Who

• Paradox Lost (New Series # 47, BBC Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84990-235-9 )
• Engines of War (New Series Special # 4, BBC Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-84990-848-1 )

Warhammer 40,000

• Labyrinth of Sorrows (Black Library, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84970-132-7 )
• Sons of Corax (Black Library, 2015, ISBN 978-1-78496-015-5 )
• Shrike (Black Library, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78496-496-2 )

Sherlock Holmes

• Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead (Titan Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78116-001-5 )
  • German: The will of the dead. Translated by Claudia Kern. Panini, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8332-2899-5 .
• Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box (Titan Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78116-002-2 )

Short stories

• Methuselah (2008)
• The Hambleton Affair ( Newbury and Hobbes , 2008)
• The Shattered Teacup ( Newbury and Hobbes , 2010)
• The Cull (2010)
• Annabel Regina (2010)
• Rise and Fall (2010)
• The Albino's Shadow (2011)

Non-fiction

• The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2001, Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0-7867-0887-5 )
• with Justin Richards: The Whoniverse: An Untold History of the Universe (non-fiction, Harper Design, 2016, ISBN 978-0-06-247020-1 )
• with Justin Richards: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (non-fiction, BBC Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78594-252-5 )

comics

• Doctor Who: The Body Electric (6 page, Free Comic Book Day, Titan, 2015)
  • German: The electric body (Panini, 2017)
• Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen (5 vols. 2016)

Audio books

• The Pyralis Effect ( Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles , Big Finish, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84435-427-6 )
• The Shattered Teacup ( Newbury and Hobbes , Snowbooks, 2010)
• Helion Rain ( Warhammer 40,000 , The Black Library, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84970-017-7 )
• Child of Time ( Time Hunter , Fantom Films Limited, 2011, ISBN 978-1-906263-21-8 )
• The Reification of Hans Gerber ( Sherlock Holmes , 2011, ISBN 978-1-84435-592-1 )
• Labyrinth of Sorrows ( Warhammer 40,000 , The Black Library, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84970-132-7 )

Anthologies

• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (Solaris, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84416-448-6 )
• The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (Solaris, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84416-523-0 )
• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two (Solaris, 2008, ISBN 978-1-84416-542-1 )
• The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three (Solaris, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84416-709-8 )

Sexton Blake

• Sexton Blake: Detective (Snowbooks, 2009, ISBN 978-1-906727-41-3 )
• Sexton Blake, Crime Fighter (Snowbooks, 2010, ISBN 978-1-906727-49-9 )

Sherlock Holmes

• Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78116-003-9 )
• Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-78116-004-6 )
• Associates of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78329-930-0 )
• Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes (Titan Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78329-932-4 )

literature

• John Clute , David Langford : Man, George. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated March 7, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about George Mann in the catalog of the German National Library
• George Mann in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• George Mann in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about George Mann at Open Library
• Homepage of George Mann
• George Mann's blog
• George Mann as a scriptwriter in the Grand Comics Database