George Mann (writer)


George Mann is a British author and editor, primarily in genre fiction, and is best known for his alternate history detective novel series Newbury and Hobbes and The Ghosts action science fiction noir novels, a book series set in the same universe.
Mann works in Nottinghamshire and lives in Lincolnshire. He is a former editor of Outland Magazine, and has also edited a number of anthologies, including The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction , The Solaris Book of New Fantasy and two retrospective collections of Sexton Blake stories, Sexton Blake, Detective, which has an introduction by Michael Moorcock and Sexton Blake, Crime Fighter.
Mann is the author of The Human Abstract, The Severed Man, a novella in the series the Time Hunter, and co-author of the series finale, Child of Time. He has also written numerous short stories, and original Doctor Who novels. In 2011 he wrote a new Sherlock Holmes audiobook as well. The novels The Affinity Bridge and The Osiris Ritual marked the beginning of his Newbury and Hobbes detective series.

''Newbury and Hobbes'' novel series

Mann has published four novels and several stories subtitled A Newbury & Hobbes or A Maurice Newbury investigation. These are steampunk adventures, set in Victorian England, featuring Sir Maurice Newbury, a gentleman "investigator for the Crown", and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes who, unbeknownst to him, is an agent of the Queen as well. This is an ongoing series that will consist of at least six novels.
In November 2012, Obverse Books released a Newbury and Hobbes Annual, with contents modelled on the World Distributor Annuals which were popular in the UK in the 70s and 80s. The Annual contains new stories, a boardgame, crossword and a comic strip, in the same manner as those earlier annuals.

''The Ghosts'' novel series

Although not part of the Newbury & Hobbes franchise, Mann continued to expand upon its setting with the novel Ghosts of Manhattan and its sequels, Ghosts of War, ''Ghosts of Karnak, and Ghosts of Empire. Set twenty-five years after Newbury & Hobbes, the stories follow a new cast of characters, initially taking place in New York City in an alternate history version of the Roaring Twenties. Ghosts embraces a Decopunk aesthetic, depicting anachronistic coal-powered future technology and pulp heroes battling eldritch horrors and the occult in the shadows of 1920s Manhattan and beyond. Mann has dubbed this series The Ghosts after one of its lead protagonists, Gabriel Cross, a broken World War One veteran-turned-vigilante who assumes an alter ego called The Ghost and battles organized crime corrupted by supernatural forces, while struggling with the horrors of his own past.
On 15 October 2020 Legion M announced they were developing an adult animated television series with Powerhouse Animation based on The Ghosts'' novels, with Aaron Waltke attached as showrunner and Michael Uslan as executive producer of the project.

Novels

  • The Human Abstract
  • Wychwood : a legend of occult practices in the ancient forest of Wychwood is the basis for a modern crime story.
Sherlock Holmes
Doctor Who
  • Paradox Lost
  • Engines of War
The Ghosts series
  • Ghosts of Manhattan
  • Ghosts of War
  • Ghosts of Karnak
  • Ghosts of Empire
Newbury & Hobbes series
  • The Affinity Bridge
  • "The Hambleton Affair" – appeared in the hardcover edition of The Affinity Bridge, free PDF available for download. Included in The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes.
  • "The Shattered Teacup" * Included in The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes.
  • The Osiris Ritual
  • "What Lies Beneath", free PDF available for download Included in The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes.
  • The Immorality Engine
  • The Executioner's Heart
  • The Revenant Express
  • The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes Collection
  • ''The Albion Initiative''

    Graphic novels

Dark Souls
  • The Breath of Andolus
  • Legends of the Flame
  • Winter's Spite
Doctor Who
  • The Lost Dimension
  • Supremacy of the Cybermen
  • Ghost Stories
  • The Eighth Doctor: A Matter of Life and Death
  • The Eleventh Doctor: The Sapling Vol. 2: Roots
  • The Twelfth Doctor: Hyperion
  • The Twelfth Doctor: The Terror Beneath
  • The Twelfth Doctor: The Twist
Warhammer 40,000
  • Will of Iron
  • Revelations
  • The Fallen
Newbury & Hobbes
  • The Undying

    Novellas

Time Hunter series
  • The Severed Man
  • Child of Time
Judges series
  • Lone Wolf

    Short stories

  • "Methuselah" in Short Trips: Transmissions
  • "The Hambleton Affair"
  • "The Cull" in The Obverse Book of Ghosts
  • "Annabel Regina" in Iris: Abroad
  • "Rise and Fall" in Short Trips: Volume 1
  • "The Albino's Shadow" in Zenith Lives!

    Short story collections

  • The Sacrificial Pawn and Other Stories
  • The Newbury & Hobbes Annual 2013
  • The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes

    Non-fiction

  • The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
  • The Gollancz Encyclopedia of SF Technology

    Audiobooks

  • The Pyralis Effect
  • The Shattered Teacup
  • Helion Rain
  • Child of Time
  • The Reification of Hans Gerber
  • Labyrinth of Sorrows
The Shattered Teacup was offered as a free download by Snowbooks, it has however since been removed from their website

As editor

  • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
  • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Two
  • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three
  • The Solaris Book of New Fantasy
  • The Solaris Book of New Fantasy II
  • Sexton Blake: Detective
  • Sexton Blake, Crime Fighter
  • Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
  • Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
  • ''A Clockwork Iris''