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Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is a British science fiction and fantasy author. Green was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the University of Leicester. He began his writing career in 1973, sold his first story "Manslayer" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds in 1979. Green began his rise to success in 1988 when he sold seven novels and in 1989 when he received a commission to write the bestselling novelization of the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which has sold more than 370,000 copies. In the 1990s, Green was publishing regularly through Victor Gollancz Ltd. He currently resides in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom where he continues to write. Green's novels have been described as fantasy set in contemporary urban settings "that are slightly off", as well as a "writer of both space opera and heroic fantasy." See also Simon R. Green bibliography References External links Simon R. Green Official Site (archive.org) Simon R. Green at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Discover the Simon R Green popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Simon R Green books.

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  • Spirits From Beyond synopsis, comments

    Spirits From Beyond

    Simon R. Green

    The Carnacki Institute is all about ghosts or at least, keeping them under control.Their latest assignment sees JC and the team sent to a small country village, site of a famously...

  • Ghost of a Smile synopsis, comments

    Ghost of a Smile

    Simon R. Green

    The Operatives of the Carnacki Institute are prepared for anything . . . except this. When the Ghost Finders answer a distress call from the private research centre of one of the b...

  • Beowulf synopsis, comments

    Beowulf

    Janina Ramirez

    Part of the ALLNEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES'This accessible illustrated guide is a great introduction to the story, its origins and its enduring legacy' BBC HISTORY Which is more ter...

  • Last Best Day synopsis, comments

    Last Best Day

    Jeff Somers

    The second in a trilogy of three shorts from the “exhilarating…powerful and entertaining” (The Guardian) contemporary fantasy writer Jeff Somers, featuring the blood magician duo f...

  • Ghost of a Dream synopsis, comments

    Ghost of a Dream

    Simon R. Green

    JC, Melody and Happy Jack are looking forward to working a straightforward case for a change. They're about to be disappointed.After the potentially worldaltering events of their l...

  • The Boom Bands synopsis, comments

    The Boom Bands

    Jeff Somers

    Learn the Words. Get the blood. Rule the world. A standalone short story in the Ustari Cyclethe gritty supernatural series that includes We Are Not Good People from the "exhilarati...

  • Voices From Beyond synopsis, comments

    Voices From Beyond

    Simon R. Green

    Ghostbusting is never simple: just ask the Ghost Finder's of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green's Carnacki Institute.In a quiet London suburb, four university student...

  • Something from the Nightside synopsis, comments

    Something from the Nightside

    Simon R. Green

    Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I’m a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It’s part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nig...

  • Down These Strange Streets synopsis, comments

    Down These Strange Streets

    George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon, Simon R. Green, S.M. Stirling & Carrie Vaughn

    In this collection of urban fantasy stories, editors George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois explore the places where mystery waits at the end of every alley and where the things th...

  • We Are Not Good People synopsis, comments

    We Are Not Good People

    Jeff Somers

    Learn the Words. Get the blood. Rule the world. The Ustari Cycle starts here.From the "exhilarating, powerful, and entertaining" (Guardian) storyteller of the Avery Cates series co...

  • Fixer synopsis, comments

    Fixer

    Jeff Somers

    Learn the Words. Get the blood. Rule the world. A standalone short story in the Ustari Cycle.The heroes of We Are Not Good People learn what “down and out” truly feels like when a ...

  • Purgatorio synopsis, comments

    Purgatorio

    Dante & Robin Kirkpatrick

    In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starv...

  • Night Fall synopsis, comments

    Night Fall

    Simon R. Green

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Moonbreaker comes the epic final Secret Histories adventure, where the Droods will take on the most unexpected of enemies: the inhabit...

  • Forces From Beyond synopsis, comments

    Forces From Beyond

    Simon R. Green

    The Ghost Finders are in deep trouble but is teaming up with their evil ghostbusting rivals at the Crowley Institute really the answer?The North Sea is bitterly cold, grey and unf...

  • The Stringer synopsis, comments

    The Stringer

    Jeff Somers

    Learn the Words. Get the blood. Rule the world. A standalone short story in the Ustari Cycle.Most people never learn what a Stringer isand their lives are better for it. Lem, howev...