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

Fighting Fantasy ''Fighting Fantasy'' is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982. The series distinguished itself by mixing Choo ...

'', ''

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'', and

Games Workshop Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are '' Warhammer Age of Sigmar'' and '' Warhammer 40,000''. Founded in 1975 by John Peake, ...

's '' Warhammer'' and ''

Warhammer 40,000 ''Warhammer 40,000'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987 ...

'' game universes.

Biography

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

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 no ...

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 novels and audiobooks (and has previously produced art books, background books, and graphic novels) set in the '' Warhammer Fanta ...

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

gamebooks 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 no ...

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 ...

with

Marc Gascoigne Marc Gascoigne (born 5 July 1962 at Temple Ewell with River, near Dover, Kent) is a British author and editor. He is the editor, author or co-author of more than fifty books and gaming related titles, notably various ''Fighting Fantasy'' books, ...

. Green wrote the first book in the Pax Britannia science fiction

steampunk Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era ...

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

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 19 ...

-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) ** '' Howl of the Werewolf'' (2007, ; 2010) ** ''Stormslayer'' (2009) ** ''Night of the Necromancer'' (2010) *''ACE'' adventure gamebooks: **''

Alice Alice may refer to: * Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname Literature * Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll * ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...

'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'' or ''Peter and Wendy'', often known simply as ''Peter Pan'', is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous ...

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

The Time Machine ''The Time Machine'' is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively fo ...

'' and ''

King Kong King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...

'') (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 a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taki ...

'', with elements of ''

Nosferatu ''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ( ...

'', ''

Frankenstein ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific exp ...

'', and '' The Lair of the White Worm'') (2021, Snowbooks, ) *''

'' gamebooks (with

, 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 ''Pax Britannica'' (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after ''Pax Romana'') was the International relations (1814–1919), period of relative peace between the great powers during which the British Empire became the global Hegemony, hegemon ...

'' ( 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 )

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Jonathan British gamebook writers 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists Living people Fighting Fantasy British male novelists 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers 1971 births