Philip Athans

Philip Athans is an American editor and author.

Biography

Philip Athans was born in 1964 in Rochester, New York, but was raised in Chicago. Athans grew up reading Marvel comics and Starlog magazines, and watching Star Trek. He graduated from film school in 1985 and started small circulation literary magazine called Alternative Fiction & Poetry.

Although Athans used to work in a record store while working on his writing career in his spare time, he was taken on in the book publishing department of TSR in 1995, and survived the transition to Wizards of the Coast. In 1997, Athans became Managing Editor for Wizards of the Coast Book Publishing, where he has spent most of his time as the Forgotten Realms novel line editor. There he has edited dozens of anthologies and novels, and continues to write his own. He wrote some of the first Forgotten Realms books as well as many others like Lies of the Light in 2006 and Realms of War in 2008. He is well known for writing the novelizations of the computer games, Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn. His most recent works are the three novels in the Watercourse Trilogy.

Partial bibliography

Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate series

• Baldur's Gate (1999)
• Baldur's Gate 2: The Shadows of Amn (2000)

Forgotten Realms: War of the Spider Queen series

• Annihilation (novel) (2004)

Forgotten Realms: The Watercourse Trilogy

• Whispers of the Waves (2005)
• Lies of the Light (2006)
• Scream of Stone (2007)

Other novels

• The Savage Caves (under the pseudonym T.H. Lain) (2002)
• The Halls of Stormweather (Gateway to Sembia) (2007)

External links

• Biography at Wizards of the Coast
• Philip Athans at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database