Gannon, Charles E
Entry updated 4 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1960- ) US academic, a professor of English at St Bonaventure University, and author. He has worked extensively in Game Design and game writing – especially for the Traveller series of Role Playing Games – as well as working as a scriptwriter and producer in New York City.
He began to publish fiction of genre interest with "The Gift of the Magi" in Invasion (anth 1994) edited by Jerry Pournelle. His first major contribution was the academic study Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction (nonfiction 2003).
Gannon's first novels were collaborations in two long-running series, beginning with Extremis (2011) with Steve White in the Starfire series of ties to the game Starfire, and 1635: The Papal Stakes (2012) with Eric Flint in the Assiti Shards (1632) series. Since then he has contributed further novels and short fiction to these and other series. His first solo novels are in the Hard SF Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic series, starting with Fire with Fire (2013), which won a Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Memorial Award; the sequence is ongoing. [RR]
Charles Edward Gannon
born Teaneck, New Jersey: 17 March 1960
works
series
Starfire
- Extremis (New York: Baen Books, 2011) with Steve White [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Kurt Miller]
- Imperative (New York: Baen Books, 2016) with Steve White [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Dave Seeley]
- Oblivion (New York: Baen Books, 2018) with Steve White [tie to Starfire: Starfire: pb/Dave Seeley]
Assiti Shards: 1632
- 1635: The Papal Stakes (New York: Baen Books, 2012) with Eric Flint [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/Tom Kidd]
- 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (New York: Baen Books, 2014) with Eric Flint [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/Tom Kidd]
- 1636: The Vatican Sanction (New York: Baen Books, 2017) with Eric Flint [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/Tom Kidd]
- 1637: No Peace Beyond the Line (New York: Baen Books, 2020) with Eric Flint [Assiti Shards: 1632: hb/Tom Kidd]
- 1636: Calabar's War (New York: Baen Books, 2022) with Robert E Waters [Assiti Shards: 1632: pb/Tom Kidd]
Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic
- Fire with Fire (New York: Baen Books, 2013) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Sam Kennedy]
- Trial by Fire (New York: Baen Books, 2014) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Raising Caine (New York: Baen Books, 2015) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Caine's Mutiny (New York: Baen Books, 2017) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Marque of Caine (New York: Baen Books, 2019) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Bob Eggleton]
- Mission Critical (New York: Baen Books, 2023) with Griffin Barber, Chris Kennedy and Mike Massa [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: pb/Thomas Peters]
- Endangered Species (New York: Baen Books, 2023) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: hb/]
- Protected Species (New York: Baen Books, 2023) [Caine Riordan / Tales of the Terran Republic: hb/]
Black Tide Rising
For other titles in this series, see John Ringo.
- At the End of the World (New York: Baen Books, 2020) [Black Tide Rising: hb/Kurt Miller]
- At the End of the Journey (New York: Baen Books, 2022) [Black Tide Rising: hb/Kurt Miller]
Vortex of Worlds
- This Broken World (New York: Baen Books, 2021) [Vortex of Worlds: hb/Kurt Miller]
- Into the Vortex (New York: Baen Books, 2023) [Vortex of Worlds: hb/]
individual titles
- The Aethers of Mars (Rockville, Maryland: Phoenix Pick, 2014) with Eric Flint [title novella by Flint, plus a sequel "White Sand, Red Dust" by Gannon: in the publisher's The Stellar Guild series: pb/]
nonfiction
- Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction (Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2003) [nonfiction: hb/Mark Preston]
works as editor
- Lost Signals of the Terran Republic (no place given: Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press, 2019) [anth: pb/]
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