Chris Wooding (born 28 February 1977) is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.
Works edit
Braided Path edit
- The Weavers of Saramyr (2003)
- The Skein of Lament (2004)
- The Ascendancy Veil (2005)
Malice edit
- Malice (2009)
- Havoc (2010)
Tales of the Ketty Jay edit
- Retribution Falls (2009)
- The Black Lung Captain (2010)
- The Iron Jackal (2011)
- The Ace of Skulls (2013)
The Darkwater Legacy edit
- The Ember Blade (2019)
- The Shadow Casket (2023)
Standalone novels edit
- Crashing (1998)
- Catchman (1998)
- Kerosene (1999)
- Broken Sky series (1999–2001)
- The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray (2001)
- Poison (2003)
- Storm Thief (2006)
- The Fade (2007)
- Pandemonium (2012)
- Silver (2013)
- Velocity (2015)
Awards and nominations edit
- 2001: The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award (runner-up), category 9–11 years[1]
- 2004: Poison won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year[2]
- 2004: Poison nominated for the Carnegie Medal[3]
- 2007: Storm Thief nominated for the Carnegie Medal[4]
- 2010: Retribution Falls shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
References edit
- ^ [1] Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived December 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards - Press Desk". Carnegiegreenaway.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
- ^ "The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards - Press Desk". Carnegiegreenaway.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
External links edit
- Official website
- Interview at Transition Tradition Magazine[permanent dead link]
- Chris Wooding at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Chris Wooding at Library of Congress, with 14 library catalog records
