Michael Scott Rohan (1951 - 2018)
Michael Scott Rohan, born in Edinburgh in 1951, writes both fantasy and science fiction. Whilst studying law at Oxford, Rohan joined the SF group and met the president, Allan J Scott, who started him writing for the group's semi-professional magazine SFinx alongside names such as Robert Holdstock and Ian Watson. His first novel, Run to the Stars, was published in 1983 and he collaborated with Allan J Scott on The Hammer and the Cross, a non-fiction account of how Christianity arrived in Viking lands. Rohan is best known for his acclaimed The Winter of the World sequence, an epic fantasy set in and ice-bound world. He passed away in 2018.
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Allan J. Scott (1952 - )
Born in 1952, Allan James Julius Scott began writing at a very early age. His first published work of genre interest was "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", which appeared in the 1982 edition of Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters anthology. As editor of the Oxford University Science Fiction Group's magazine SFinx, Scott met Michael Scott Rohan, with whom he later collaborated on a number of titles, including The Hammer and the Cross, The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
Allan J. Scott (1952 - )
Born in 1952, Allan James Julius Scott began writing at a very early age. His first published work of genre interest was "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", which appeared in the 1982 edition of Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters anthology. As editor of the Oxford University Science Fiction Group's magazine SFinx, Scott met Michael Scott Rohan, with whom he later collaborated on a number of titles, including The Hammer and the Cross, The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.
Michael Scott Rohan (1951 - 2018)
Michael Scott Rohan was born in Edinburgh, in 1951, of a French father and Scottish mother, and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St.Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is the author of twelve fantasy and science-fiction novels, including the award-winning Winter of the World trilogy, and co-author of two more, as well as short stories and several non-fiction books. His books have appeared throughout Europe, the USA and the rest of the world, and have been republished as eBooks by SF Gateway. Besides writing novels he has been a Times columnist, edited reference books, and reviews and writes about classical music for all the major British music magazines, currently BBC Music Magazine and Opera. He enjoys singing, arguing, beer, Oriental food, travelling, playing with longbows and computers, and hobbies including archaeology and palaeontology. After 2000, diagnosed with incurable illness, he abandoned fiction writing. However, he has managed to continue travelling, throughout Scandinavia, North and South America, and both Antarctica and the Arctic, and he is finishing another fantasy novel. He passed away in 2018.
