Stan Nicholls
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Stan Nicholls has been a full-time writer since 1981. He is the author of many novels and short stories but is best known for the internationally acclamied Orcs: First Blood series.
His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, the Independent, The Daily Mirror, Time Out, Sight and Sound, Rolling Stone, SFX and Locus among many others.[1] Nicholls has worked for a number of specialists and general book shops including Dark They Were, And Golden Eyed and was the first manager of the London branch of Forbidden Planet.
[edit] Awards
The first two books in the Orcs: First Blood series, Bodyguard of Lightning and Legion of Thunder, received best novel nominations at the 1999 British Fantasy Awards.[2] In 2007, Nicholls was awarded the Le'Fantastique Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Literature at the Trolls & Legendes Festival in Mons, Belgium.[3] His 2008 novel Orcs Bad Blood 1: Weapons of Magical Destruction was nominated for the inaugural David Gemmell Legend Award for best fantasy novel.[4]
He currently lives in the West Midlands with his wife, science fiction author Anne Gay.
[edit] References
- ^ "Author Bio at HarperCollins". HarperCollins. http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/28120/Stan_Nicholls/index.aspx. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
- ^ "Stan Nicholls". www.fantasticfiction.co.uk. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/stan-nicholls/. Retrieved on 2009-02-21.
- ^ "Stan Nicholls receives lifetime achievement award". UK SF Book News. http://www.uksfbooknews.net/2007/04/16/stan-nicholls-receives-lifetime-achievement-award/.
- ^ "THE NOMINEES - The David Gemmell Legend Award". gemmellaward.ning.com. http://gemmellaward.ning.com/page/page/show?id=2323348%3APage%3A230. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
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