S. Andrew Swann (alternately S. A. Swann, S. A. Swiniarski, and Steven Krane) is an American

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and

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author living in

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, a suburb of

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, where much of his fiction is set. He was born Steven Swiniarski and has published some of his books as Swiniarski, and some as Swann. He has been published by

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and by Ballantine Spectra, a division of Random House.

Books

* ''The Moreau Quartet'' (four books; 3 omnibus editions) ** ''Forests of the Night'' (DAW Books Inc., 1993) ** ''Emperors of the Twilight'' (DAW Books Inc., 1994) ** ''Specters of the Dawn'' (DAW Books Inc., 1994) ** ''Fearful Symmetries'' (DAW Books Inc., 1999) *** ''The Moreau Omnibus'' (DAW Books Inc., 2003) *** ''The Moreau Quartet Volume One'' (DAW Books Inc., 2015) *** ''The Moreau Quartet Volume Two'' (DAW Books Inc., October 6, 2015) * The ''Hostile Takeover Trilogy'' (three books; 1 omnibus edition) ** ''Profiteer'' (DAW Books Inc., 1995) ** ''Partisan'' (DAW Books Inc., 1995) ** ''Revolutionary'' (DAW Books Inc., 1996) *** ''The Hostile Takeover Trilogy'' (DAW Books Inc., 2004) * ''Apotheosis Trilogy'' (three books) ** ''Prophets'' (DAW Books Inc., 2009) ** ''Heretics'' (DAW Books Inc., 2010) ** ''Messiah'' (DAW Books Inc., 2011) * ''The Cleveland Portal'' Series (two books; 1 omnibus edition) ** ''Dragons of the Cuyahoga'' (DAW Books Inc., 2001) ** ''Dwarves of Whiskey Island'' (DAW Books Inc., 2005) *** ''Dragons & Dwarves'' (DAW Books Inc., 2009) * ''The Wolf'' Series (two books) ** ''Wolfbreed'' (Spectra, 2009) ** ''Wolf's Cross'' (Spectra, 2010) * ''The Dragon*'' series (three books) ** ''Dragon•Princess'' (DAW Books Inc., 2014) ** ''Dragon•Thief'' (DAW Books Inc., 2015) ** ''Dragon•Wizard'' (DAW Books Inc., 2016) * Standalones (three books) ** ''God's Dice'' (DAW Books Inc., 1997) ** ''Zimmerman's Algorithm'' (DAW Books Inc., 2000) ** ''Broken Crescent'' (DAW Books Inc., 2004)

Writing as S. A. Swiniarski (two books, 1 omnibus edition)

* ''Raven'' (DAW Books Inc., 1996) * ''The Flesh, the Blood, & the Fire'' (DAW Books Inc., 1998) ** ''Blood & Rust'' (DAW Books Inc., 2007)

Writing as Steven Krane (three books)

* ''Teek'' (DAW Books Inc., 1999) * ''The Omega Game'' (DAW Books Inc., 2000) * ''Stranger Inside'' (DAW Books Inc., 2003)

Interactive fiction

He has also published an interactive novel. * ''Welcome to Moreytown'' (

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, 2017) * ''Sword of the Slayer'' (

, 2019)

Collaborative fiction

From 2011 to 2014, Swann contributed 23 articles to the

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horror writing project.contributed 23 articles
/ref> These are short horror stories with an academic format, released under a

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license, and are freely available online. They are listed below using SCP's article numbering, which is not strictly chronological. *SCP-001; S Andrew Swann's Proposal (2011) *SCP-286 ''The Brothers' Game'' (2012) *SCP-319 ''A Curious Device'' (2013) *SCP-435 ''He-Who-Made-Dark'' (2011) *SCP-511 ''Basement Cat'' (2011) *SCP-635 ''Medieval Bootstrap Program'' (2011) *SCP-687 ''NOIR'' (2011) *SCP-688 ''Hole Dwellers'' (2012) *SCP-719 ''Eyeball'' (2012) *SCP-873 ''Russian Crystal Ball'' (2012) *SCP-1123 ''Atrocity Skull'' (2012) *SCP-1127 ''A Film Festival'' (2012) *SCP-1257 ''Agent Danny of the SCP'' (2013) *SCP-1666 ''The Devil's Music'' (2011) *SCP-1736 ''Voice of the Light'' (2013) *SCP-1800 ''The Minotaur'' (2012) *SCP-1801 ''Sharing Sickness'' (2012) *SCP-1803 ''The Collage'' (2012) *SCP-1804 ''Underwood #5'' (2012) *SCP-1805 ''A Real Doll'' (2012) *SCP-1806 ''Shadow Sculpture'' (2012) *SCP-1966 ''Sentient Body Scanner'' (2012) *SCP-2031 ''Ant Farm'' (2014)

References

External links

Swann's home page
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