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| Born | December 25, 1969 |
Christopher Rowe (born December 25, 1969 [1] ) 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. [2] [3]
Rowe's first professionally published short story was "Kin to Crows" (Realms of Fantasy, 1998). [4] His best-known story is "The Voluntary State" ( Sci Fiction , 2004), [1] which was nominated for multiple major awards. [3] That story was followed by two sequels: "The Border State" (2017) and These Prisoning Hills (2022). [5]
His 2017 short-story collection Telling the Map received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly ("wild creativity, haunting imagery, and lyricism"), Kirkus Reviews (a "clutch of complex, persuasive visions of an alternate South"), [6] and Tor.com ("a stellar set of stories that mesh well together"). [7]
He lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He was married to fellow author Gwenda Bond, with whom he co-authored the The Supernormal Sleuthing Service book series, [8] from 2004 to 2023. [9]
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| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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| Kin to crows | 1998 | Realms of Fantasy | ||
| The Voluntary State | 2004 | Sci Fiction | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (ed. Gardner Dozois) | |
| The unveiling | 2015 | Rowe, Christopher (January 2015). "The unveiling". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (1): 14–21. | ||
| The Border State | 2017 | Sequel to "The Voluntary State" | ||
| Knowledgeable Creatures | 2019 | Christopher Rowe. "Knowledgeable Creatures". Tor.com Original Fiction. Retrieved 6 October 2023. | The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 (ed. Rich Horton) | |
| 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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