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Stephen Hunt

Goodreads Author

Born

in Canada

Website

http://www.StephenHunt.net

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Influences

Jack Williamson, Stephen Goldin, David Gemmell, Bruce Sterling, Larry ...more

Member Since

January 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/stephenhunt

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Stephen Hunt is a British writer living in London. His first fantasy novel, For the Crown and the Dragon, was published in 1994, and introduced a young officer, Taliesin, fighting for the Queen of England in a Napoleonic period alternative reality where the wars of Europe were being fought with sorcery and steampunk weapons (airships, clockwork machine guns, and steam-driven trucks called kettle-blacks). The novel won the 1994 WH Smith Award, and the book reviewer Andrew Darlington used Hunt's novel to coin the phrase Flintlock Fantasy to describe the sub-genre of fantasy set in a Regency or Napoleonic-era period. ...more

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For the Crown and the Dragon, the wargame?

There’s a Kickstarter for the new Crown & Dragon skirmish wargame rules extension, an add-on to the original Savage Worlds Crown & Dragon RPG – the role-playing game based on Stephen Hunt’s Triple Realm duology.

That is to say, the fantasy/steampunk novels For the Crown and the Dragon, and The Fortress in the Frost.

Think Sharpe’s Company, but with dollops of extra magic, steam tanks, airships, and

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Stephen Hunt’s books

Average rating: 3.6 · 10,653 ratings · 1,227 reviews · 258 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Court of the Air (Jackelian, #1) 3.29 avg rating — 4,171 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kingdom Beyond the Waves (Jackelian, #2) 3.75 avg rating — 1,883 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise of the Iron Moon (Jackelian, #3) 3.77 avg rating — 1,172 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Fire Sea (Jackelian, #4) 3.86 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jack Cloudie (Jackelian, #5) 3.81 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sliding Void (Sliding Void, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Deep of the Dark (Jackelian, #6) 3.99 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Dark Service (Far Called Trilogy, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Transference Station (Sliding Void, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Void All The Way Down: the galaxy's most thrilling space opera: Science Fiction & Fantasy Classics 4.10 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

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“If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.”
― Stephen Hunt

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“All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better. Most of the time I just want to shake some sense into the world.”
― Stephen Hunt, The Court of the Air

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