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Stephen Hunt is a British author of science fiction and fantasy — creator of the Jackelian, Sliding Void and Far-called series — and the founder of SFcrowsnest.
Author bios
Stephen Hunt is a British author of science fiction and fantasy — creator of the Jackelian, Sliding Void and Far-called series — and the founder of SFcrowsnest.
Stephen Hunt is a British SF and fantasy author whose books range across steampunk, space opera, epic fantasy, mystery and horror. He is best known for the seven-book Jackelian sequence (HarperCollins), the Far-called trilogy (Gollancz) and the indie Sliding Void space-opera series. Whatever the genre, his trademark is the page-turning thriller — high imagination, real adventure and a streak of sly humour. He founded SFcrowsnest, one of the first and longest-running genre websites, in 1991.
A full-length career biography — from the cyberpunk short fiction of the early 1990s to the Jackelian, Far-called and Sliding Void series — is on the About page.
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The series at a glance
Interview topics
- Coining a genre: how the 1994 debut For the Crown and the Dragon helped name “flintlock fantasy”.
- Putting rocket-boosters under steampunk — the seven-book Jackelian sequence.
- Founding SFcrowsnest in 1991, one of the web's first genre magazines.
- Indie and traditional publishing: writing for Gollancz and HarperCollins, and self-publishing through Green Nebula.
- Worldbuilding across genres — space opera, epic fantasy, steampunk and the spaces between.
- Genre fiction and the mainstream — the 2011 open letter to the BBC, alongside Banks, Moon and Moorcock.
Enquiries & rights
Interview, review-copy and rights enquiries are welcome. The quickest routes to Stephen are through his own site and the SFcrowsnest desk.