Simon Richard Green (born 25 August 1955) is an English
science fiction
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and
fantasy
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author.
Green was born in
Bradford on Avon
Bradford-on-Avon (sometimes Bradford on Avon) is a town and civil parish in west Wiltshire, England, near the border with Somerset. The town's canal, historic buildings, shops, pubs and restaurants make it popular with tourists. The parish had ...
,
Wiltshire
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, England. He holds a degree in modern English and American literature from the
University of Leicester
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. He writing in 1973, sold his first story "Manslayer" in 1976, and published his first full-length work, ''Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds'' in 1979. In 1988 he sold seven novels, and in 1989, he received a commission to write the novelization of the
Kevin Costner
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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
Victor Gollancz Ltd () was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy titles as an imprint of Orion Publishing Group.
Gollancz was founded in 1927 by Victor Gollancz, an ...
.
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
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and
heroic fantasy
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."
See also
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Simon R. Green bibliography
References
External links
Simon R. Green Official Site(archived)
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1955 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Leicester
British fantasy writers
English male novelists
People from Bradford-on-Avon
Urban fantasy writers