Jonathan Green is a freelance writer. He has written for various science fiction and fantasy franchises, including ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...

'', '' Fighting Fantasy'', ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battle ...

'', and

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's '' Warhammer'' and '' Warhammer 40,000'' game universes.

Biography

Before becoming a full-time writer, Green was a teacher and deputy headmaster of a school in London. Green wrote seven '' Fighting Fantasy''

gamebook A gamebook is a work of printed fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices. The narrative branches along various paths, typically through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages. Each narrative typically does not ...

s, and a history of the franchise. Green has written four novels for the

Black Library The Black Library is a division of Games Workshop (formerly a part of BL Publishing) which is devoted to publishing List of Black Library novels, novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) ...

label: ''Necromancer'', ''Magestorm'', ''The Dead and the Damned'', and ''Iron Hands''. He co-authored several ''

'' gamebooks for

Puffin Books Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. The imprint now belongs to ...

with Marc Gascoigne. Green wrote the first book in the Pax Britannia science fiction

steampunk Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and Applied arts, aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century Industrial Revolution, industrial steam engine, steam-powered machinery. Steampun ...

series ''Unnatural History'' published by Abaddon Books, which features a Victorian

James Bond The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...

-style dandy adventurer called Ulysses Quicksilver.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

* ''Go Gos Are Go Go'' (1997, ) * ''Match Wits with the Kids'' (June 2008, ) * ''What is Myrrh Anyway?'' (October 2008, ) * ''YOU Are The Hero: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks'' (September 2014, and ) * ''YOU Are The Hero Part 2: A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks'' (September 2017)

Fiction

*''Fighting Fantasy'' adventure gamebooks: ** ''Spellbreaker'' (1993, ; 2007, ) ** ''Knights of Doom'' (1994, ) ** '' Curse of the Mummy'' (1995, ; 2007, ; 2011) ** ''Bloodbones'' (2006, ; 2010, Wizard Books) ** '' Howl of the Werewolf'' (2007, ; 2010, Wizard Books) ** ''Stormslayer'' (2009, Wizard Books) ** ''Night of the Necromancer'' (2010, Wizard Books) ** ''Secrets of Salamonis'' (co-written with Steve Jackson, 2022, Scholastic Books) *''ACE'' adventure gamebooks: **''

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's Nightmare in Wonderland'' (2015, Snowbooks, ) **'' The Wicked Wizard of Oz'' (2015, Snowbooks, ) **''Neverland: Here Be Monsters!'' (based on ''

Peter and Wendy ''Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'', often known simply as ''Peter Pan'', is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled ''Peter and Wendy''. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous ...

'', '' The Lost World'', ''

The Time Machine ''The Time Machine'' is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularizati ...

'' and ''

King Kong King Kong, also referred to simply as Kong, is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. The character has since become an international pop culture icon,Erb, Cynthia, 1998, ''Tracking Kin ...

'') (2019, Snowbooks, ) **'' Beowulf Beastslayer'' (2019, Snowbooks, ) **'' 'TWAS: The Krampus Night Before Christmas'' (2019, Snowbooks, ) **''Dracula: Curse of the Vampire'' (based on Bram Stoker's ''

Dracula ''Dracula'' is an 1897 Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is Epistolary novel, related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist and opens ...

'', with elements of ''

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' () is a 1922 silent film, silent German Expressionism (cinema), German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who ...

'', ''

Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a Sapience, sapient Frankenstein's monster, crea ...

'', and '' The Lair of the White Worm'') (2021, Snowbooks, ) **''RONIN 47'' (inspired by the Legend of the

Forty-Seven Ronin 47 (forty-seven) is the natural number following 46 and preceding 48. It is a prime number. It is the adopted favorite number of Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Southern California, whose alumni have added cultural references to it in ...

and

Kaiju is a Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters. Its widespread contemporary use is credited to ''tokusatsu'' (special effects) director Eiji Tsuburaya and filmmaker Ishirō Honda, who popularized the ''kaiju'' ...

films) (2022, Snowbooks, ) *''

'' gamebooks (with Marc Gascoigne, Puffin Books): ** ''Theme Park Panic'' (1995, ) ** ''Stormin' Sonic'' (1996, ) *List of

books: ** ''The Dead and the Damned'' (December 2002, ) ** ''Crusade for Armageddon'' (July 2003, ) ** ''Magestorm'' (February 2004, ) ** ''Iron Hands'' (August 2004, ) ** ''Necromancer'' (February 2005, ) ** ''Conquest of Armageddon'' (December 2005, ) * '' Pax Britannia'' ( Abaddon Books): ** ''Unnatural History'' (February 2007, ) ** ''Leviathan Rising'' (March 2008, ) ** ''Human Nature'' (January 2009, ) ** ''Evolution Expects'' (May 2009, ) ** ''Blood Royal'' (August 2010, UK-, US-) ** ''Dark Side'' (September 2011, UK-, US-) ** ''Anno Frankenstein'' (May 2011, UK-, US-) *'' Robin of Sherwood'' Novelizations: ** '' Robin of Sherwood: The Knights Of The Apocalypse''. (2016 )

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