Stephanie Jane “Steph” Swainston is a British literary fantasy/science fiction author, known for the Castle series. Her debut novel, The Year of Our War (2004), won the 2005 Crawford Award and a nomination for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Swainston took a break from writing in 2011 to become a chemistry teacher,[1] but subsequently returned to writing.[2] Her fifth novel, Fair Rebel, was published in 2016.
Books in order of publication by series:
- The Year of Our War (Gollancz SF, 2004)
- The Year of Our War (Gollancz SF, 2006)
- No Present Like Time (Gollancz SF, 2005, hardcover)
- No Present Like Time (Gollancz SF, 2006, paperback)
- The Modern World (Gollancz SF, 2007, paperback)
- The Castle Omnibus: “The Year of Our War”, “No Present Like Time”, “The Modern World” (Gollancz SF, 2009, paperback)
- Above the Snowline (Gollancz SF, 2010, hardcover)
- Fair Rebel (Gollancz SF, 2016, paperback)
- Turning Point – short story collection (Air and Nothingness Press, 2018, paperback)
Castle short stories
- The Wheel of Fortune in the anthology The Best British Fantasy 2013 (Salt Publishing, 2013, paperback)
- Wrought Gothic (Air and Nothingness Press, 2016, paperback)
- Aftermath (Air and Nothingness Press, 2016, paperback)
