James Lovegrove
James M. H. Lovegrove is a British writer of speculative fiction.
Early life
Lovegrove was educated at Radley College, Oxfordshire, and was one of the subjects of a 1979 BBC television series, Public School. A follow-up programme was broadcast on 27 October 2013, in which Lovegrove talked about his experiences of attending the school and about public school education in general. He later studied English literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford.Career
Lovegrove's first novel was The Hope, published by Macmillan in 1990. He was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 for his novel Days and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004 for his novel Untied Kingdom. His short story "Carry The Moon in My Pocket" won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Foreign Language Short Story.Lovegrove has written young adult fiction, most notably a series of fantasy novels, The Clouded World, under a pseudonym. These have been translated into nine languages so far. He has also written a number of short novels published by Barrington Stoke, a company specialising in books for reluctant readers. Two of his titles for that company have been longlisted for the Manchester Book Award.
His recent Pantheon series is a set of standalone military science fiction adventure novels featuring the gods of ancient mythologies. Seven have been published so far: The Age of Ra, The Age of Zeus, The Age of Odin, The Age of Aztec, Age of Voodoo, Age of Shiva, Age of Heroes and Age of Legends. In 2013, Lovegrove published an omnibus collecting three Pantheon novellas, entitled The Age of Godpunk.
As an illustrator, Lovegrove has executed design and poster work for Flying Pig Systems, makers of the Wholehog range of lighting control products, and drew the pictures for the Echo Beach line of postcards and T-shirts.
He has contributed reviews and journalism to magazines such as The Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames Magazine and Comic Heroes, and has set cryptic crosswords to the weekend section of The Independent. Starting in 2007, he became a regular reviewer of fiction for the Financial Times, concentrating primarily on SF and children's fiction.
Since 2013 Lovegrove has begun publishing Sherlock Holmes pastiche novels for Titan Books, including a mash-up trilogy, Cthulhu Casebooks, that crosses over the literary worlds of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft.
From 2018 he has also written Firefly novels for Titan Books. His first Firefly novel Big Damn Hero was nominated for the 2019 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-In Novel and his third won the 2020 award in the same category. His second Firefly novel The Magnificent Nine was nominated for a 2020 Scribe Award in the category Original Novel Speculative and his third Firefly novel The Ghost Machine was nominated for a 2021 Scribe Award in the same category.
Novels
The Hope, Macmillan 1990, Days, Gollancz Ltd|Gollancz] 1997, Escardy Gap, Earthlight/Tor 1998 The Foreigners, Gollancz 2000, Untied Kingdom, Gollancz 2003, Worldstorm, Gollancz 2004, Provender Gleed, Gollancz 2005, Better Life, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014, The James Lovegrove Collection, Volume #1, REBCA, 2014,Redlaw
Redlaw, Solaris Books, 2011, Redlaw Red Eye, Solaris Books, 2012,The Dev Harmer Missions
World of Fire, 2014, Solaris Books, World of Water, 2016, Solaris,The Pantheon Series
The Age of Ra, Solaris Books, 2009, The Age of Zeus, Solaris Books, 2010, The Age of Odin, Solaris Books, 2011, Age of Aztec, Solaris Books, 2012, Age of Godpunk, Solaris Books, 2013, Age of Voodoo, Solaris Books, 2013, Age of Shiva, Solaris Books, 2014, Age of Heroes, Solaris Books, 2016, Age of Legends, Solaris Books, 2019Sherlock Holmes pastiches
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares, Titan Books 2013, Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War, Titan Books 2014, Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine, Titan Books 2015, Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death, Titan Books 2017, Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Dust, Titan Books 2018, Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon, Titan Books 2019, Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons, Titan Books, 2020, Sherlock Holmes & The Three Winter Terrors, Titan Books, 2021,The Cthulhu Casebooks
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows, Titan Books 2016, Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities, Titan Books 2017, Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils, Titan Books 2018, Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors, Titan Books 2023,Sherlock Holmes Short Fiction
The Fallen Financier, in George Mann, Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2013, The Innocent Icarus, in David Thomas Moore, Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, Abaddon, 2014, Pure Swank, in George Mann, Associates of Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2016,- The Noble Burglar, in George Mann, Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2017, The Adventure of the Deadly Séance, in Martin Rosenstock, Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven, Titan Books, 2019, The Manifestations of Sherlock Holmes, Titan Books, 2020,