Charles E. Gannon | |
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Born | [1] Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. [1] | March 17, 1960
Nationality | American |
Education | |
Occupation(s) | Game designer, novelist |
Writing career | |
Period | 1994–present |
Genre | Science fiction |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Speculative Fiction: Literature of Political Transformation (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Philip Sicker |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English literature |
Sub-discipline | Science fiction |
Institutions | St. Bonaventure University |
Website | charlesegannon |
Charles E. Gannon (born March 17,1960) is an American novelist and game designer who has worked primarily on hard science fiction and role-playing games.
Charles Gannon wrote Hard Times (1991),a supplement for MegaTraveller which moved the background metaplot forward by six years. [2] : 60 Gannon wrote many articles in Challenge magazine about "The Hinterworlds",a sector of space which is part of the Imperium from the Traveller universe. [2] : 59
Gannon has also co-written novels in the 1632 series with Eric Flint,including 1635:The Papal Stakes (2012), [3] [4] [5] [6] 1636:Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (2014), [7] and 1636:The Vatican Sanction (2015). [8] His novels Fire with Fire and Trial by Fire were both nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel (in 2014 and 2015 respectively). He was nominated again in 2016 for Raising Caine, and in 2020 for Marque of Caine. [9]
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1635: The Papal Stakes is novel in the 1632 series written by Charles Gannon and Eric Flint. It was published in 2012 and is the direct sequel to 1635: The Cannon Law published in 2006. This book is the third in the South European fork to the main 1632 series storyline. The story follows the exploits of younger members of the Stone family in Italy and describes the impact of Grantville on the Roman Catholic church and on the patchwork of independent countries in the Italian peninsula.
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