Christopher Rowe (author)
Christopher Rowe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, whose stories have been finalists for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
Career
Rowe's first professionally published short story was "Kin to Crows". His best-known story is "The Voluntary State", which was nominated for multiple major awards. That story was followed by two sequels: "The Border State" and These Prisoning Hills.His 2017 short-story collection Telling the Map received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Tor.com.
Personal life
He lives in Adair County, Kentucky. He was married to fellow author Gwenda Bond, with whom he co-authored The Supernormal Sleuthing Service book series, from 2004 to 2023.Short fiction
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
| Kin to crows | 1998 | Realms of Fantasy | ||
| The Voluntary State | 2004 | Sci Fiction | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | |
| The unveiling | 2015 | |||
| The Border State | 2017 | Sequel to "The Voluntary State" | ||
| Knowledgeable Creatures | 2019 | The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 | ||
| These Prisoning Hills | 2022 | Novella; sequel to "The Voluntary State" and "The Border State" | ||
| The Navigating Fox | 2023 | Novella; set in the same milieu as "Knowledgeable Creatures" |
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