“Brilliant” – The Guardian
Gareth L. Powell is an award-winning British novelist, whose work has been translated into eleven languages. To date, he is the author of twenty-two books, thirteen of which are novels.
Powell’s novel, Embers of War, won the 2018 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Locus and Seiun Awards. His novel, Ack-Ack Macaque won the 2013 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Seiun Award. He has also been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award, the Premio Italia, and Premios Ignotus.
Powell is a proud father and grandfather, and is married to the American author Jendia Gammon, with whom he runs Stars and Sabers Publishing, serving as Managing Editor for the imprint.
He is represented in all professional matters by literary agent Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
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Awards and Nominations
- 2024 Premios Ignotus – Foreign Short Novel – Light Chaser (finalist)
- 2023 BSFA Awards – Best Novel – Descendant Machine (finalist)
- 2023 Premio Italia – International SF Novel – Light Chaser (finalist)
- 2023 Canopus Awards – Published Long-Form Fiction – Light Chaser (finalist)
- 2022 BSFA Awards – Best Novel –Stars and Bones (finalist)
- 2021 BSFA Awards – Best Shorter Fiction – Light Chaser (finalist)
- 2021 Seiun Awards – Best Translated Novel – Embers of War (finalist)
- 2020 BSFA Awards – Best Novel – Light of Impossible Stars (finalist)
- 2020 British Fantasy Awards – Best Novella – Ragged Alice (finalist)
- 2020 Locus Awards – Best SF Novel – Fleet of Knives (finalist)
- 2019 BSFA Awards – Best Novel – Fleet of Knives (finalist)
- 2019 BSFA Awards – Best Shorter Fiction – Ragged Alice (finalist)
- 2019 BSFA Awards – Best Non-fiction – About Writing (finalist)
- 2019 Locus Awards – Best SF Novel – Embers of War (finalist)
- 2018 BSFA Award – Best Novel – Embers of War (winner)
- 2016 Seiun Awards – Best Translated Novel – Ack-Ack Macaque (finalist)
- 2015 BSFA Awards – Best Short Fiction – ‘Ride The Blue Horse’ (finalist)
- 2013 BSFA Award – Best Novel – Ack-Ack Macaque (winner)
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Publication History
- 2026 – Jitterbug – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2025 – Who Will You Save? – (Collection, Titan Books)
- 2025 – Doctor Who: The Well – (Novelisation, BBC Books)
- 2025 – Future’s Edge – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2023 – Descendant Machine – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2022 – Stars and Bones – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2022 – Six Lights off Green Scar – (Chapbook, BOTH Publishing)
- 2022 – About Writing – (Non-fiction, Gollancz)
- 2021 – Light Chaser (co-written with Peter F. Hamilton) – (Novella, Tor)
- 2020 – Downdraught – (Novella, Patreon)
- 2020 – Light of Impossible Stars – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2019 – Fleet of Knives – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2019 – Ragged Alice – (Novella, Tor)
- 2018 – Embers of War – (Novel, Titan Books)
- 2017 – Ack-Ack Macaque: The Complete Trilogy – (Omnibus, Solaris Books)
- 2017 – Entropic Angel – (Collection, NewCon Press)
- 2015 – Macaque Attack – (Novel, Solaris Books)
- 2014 – Hive Monkey – (Novel, Solaris Books)
- 2013 – Ack-Ack Macaque – (Novel, Solaris Books)
- 2011 – The Recollection – (Novel, Solaris Books)
- 2010 – Silversands – (Novel, Pendragon Press)
- 2008 – The Last Reef – (Collection, Elastic Press)
As Editor:
- 2025 – Of Dread, Decay, and Doom (co-edited with Jendia Gammon) – (anthology, Stars and Sabers Publishing)
- 2025 – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite (co-edited with Jendia Gammon) – (anthology, Stars and Sabers Publishing)
- 2025 – Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers (co-edited with Jendia Gammon) – (anthology, Stars and Sabers Publishing)
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Praise
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“On my must-read list.” – Ann Leckie
“The ideas fizz off the page.” – The Guardian
“Current leader of the British space-opera pack.” – The Morning Star
“One of our best modern SF writers.” – Adrian Tchaikovsky
“Powell understands and adeptly utilises genre fiction’s capacity to combine everyday qualities of friendship, responsibility, collaboration and self-sacrifice … there is also a slightly offbeat, quirky side to his writing which underpins his popularity” – Nick Hubble
“When you have an imagination like Gareth Powell’s, you must write or paint or otherwise vent that imagination through art so your head won’t explode.” – New York Journal of Books
“Grittily poetic.” – Locus Magazine
“A masterful writer.” – Jonathan Maberry
“One of the most consistently entertaining UK SF writers” – Matthew Cavanagh
“Creative and literate.” – Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“Gareth L. Powell is one of those writers who never disappoints. He’s consistently good at what he does, writing stories with intricate world-building, plenty of humor, well developed characters and thoughtful insights into the human condition.” – Books, Bones & Buffy.
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