Gavin Smith (author)

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Gavin G. Smith
OccupationNovelist
GenreScience Fiction
Website
gavingsmith.com

Gavin Grant Smith is a Scottish science fiction writer who was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1973. [1] He is the author of the Veteran series. He has a degree in writing for film and a Masters in medieval history.

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Works

Standalone works

  1. Crysis: Escalation (February 2013) [2] Crysis 3 video-game tie-in
  2. Special Purposes: First Strike Weapon (April 2017) [2] re-issued as Spec Ops Z (February 2021) [2]
  3. Bloodshot (February 2020) [2] novelisation of Bloodshot (film)
  4. Original Sin (October 2022) [2] novelisation of Marvel's Original Sin (comics)

Veteran series

  1. Veteran (June 2010) [3] nominated for 2011 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel [4]
  2. War in Heaven (September 2011) [2]
  3. The Veteran Omnibus (February 2018) [2] collection of Veteran, War in Heaven and five short stories

Bastard Legion series

  1. The Bastard Legion (January 2017) [2] (originally The Hangman's Daughter)
  2. The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire (October 2017) [2]
  3. The Bastard Legion: War Criminals (July 2018) [2]

Age of Scorpio trilogy

  1. The Age of Scorpio (November 2012) [5]
  2. A Quantum Mythology (March 2015) [2]
  3. The Beauty of Destruction (January 2016) [2]

Collaborative works

These were all co-written with Stephen Deas under the combined name "Gavin Deas".

  1. Elite: Wanted (May 2014) [2] Elite Dangerous video-game tie-in
  2. Empires: Extraction (November 2014) [2]
  3. Empires: Infiltration (November 2014) [2]
  4. Empires: The First Battle (November 2014) [2] omnibus of Empires: Extraction and Empires: Infiltration

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References

  1. "Gavin G. Smith". Gollancz.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2016. Gavin Smith was born in Dundee in the same year that Iron Butterfly recorded Inna-Gadda-da-Vida.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ISFDB.org
  3. Veteran
  4. Worlds without End
  5. Daniel Cann. "The Age of Scorpio by Gavin Smith". fantasybookreview.co.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2015.