James Swallow


James Swallow is a British author. A BAFTA nominee and a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 best-seller, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and video games.
His writing includes the Marc Dane series of action thrillers, the Sundowners series of Western fiction steampunk novels, and fiction from the worlds of Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who, 24, Stargate, 2000 AD and many more. He has won Scribe Awards for novels and audio dramas based on Star Trek, Watch Dogs: Legion, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Star Cops. He lives and works in London.
In 2022, Capstone Pictures acquired film rights for the Marc Dane series.
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Novels and novellas

The Marc Dane series

  • Nomad, audiobook
  • Exile, audiobook
  • Ghost, audiobook
  • Rough Air
  • Shadow, audiobook
  • Rogue, audiobook
  • Outlaw, audiobook
  • ''Moscow Rules''

Stand-Alone novels

  • Airside, audiobook
  • Dark Horizon, audiobook

The Sundowners series

  • Ghost Town
  • Underworld
  • Iron Dragon
  • ''Showdown''

[Warhammer 40,000]

  • Deus Encarmine
  • Deus Sanguinius
  • Faith & Fire, partwork edition, audiobook
  • Red Fury
  • The Blood Angels Omnibus
  • Black Tide
  • The Book of Blood
  • Bloodline, reprinted in Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus, 25 For 25, Hammer & Bolter #23, The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus
  • Hammer & Anvil, partwork edition, audiobook
  • Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus
  • Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus
  • Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus
  • ''Sisters of Battle Collection''

The Horus Heresy">The Horus Heresy (novels)">The Horus Heresy

The Flight of the Eisenstein, reprinted as Collector's Edition, audiobook, partwork edition Nemesis, audiobook, Collector's Edition Fear To Tread, audiobook, Collector's Edition, partwork edition Vow of Faith, reprinted in Garro: Weapon of Fate Garro: Weapon of Fate, audiobook The Buried Dagger, audiobook Garro: Knight of Grey, audiobook

[Star Trek]

[Doctor Who]

[Space: 1999]

  • The Armageddon Engine, audiobook

UFO">UFO (British TV series)">UFO

  • Shadow Play, audiobook

[Stargate]

24">24 (TV series)">24

  • Deadline, audiobook

2000AD">2000 AD (comics)">2000AD

[Deus Ex]

  • Icarus Effect
  • Fallen Angel
  • Black Light
  • ''Hard Line''

Splinter Cell">Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell">Splinter Cell

  • Firewall, audiobook, radio adaptation
  • Dragonfire, audiobook

[Watch Dogs: Legion]

  • Day Zero, audiobook

Tannhäuser">Tannhäuser (board game)">Tannhäuser

  • ''Enigma''

[Dark Future]

  • ''Jade Dragon''

Other [tie-in] fiction

Short fiction

Original fiction

  • Snowblind - Silent Night
  • Target Market - Full-Throttle Space Tales Volume 3: Space Grunts
  • Screen Burn - Game Over
  • Toy Soldier - ''Mech: Age of Steel''

[Warhammer 40,000]

  • Crimson Night - Inferno! #38, reprinted in What Price Victory, The Book of Blood and Sons of Sanguinius
  • Wings of Bone - Inferno! #40, reprinted in On Wings of Blood
  • Relics - Inferno! #43
  • Blood Debt – The Blood Angels Omnibus, reprinted in The Book of Blood and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus
  • Heart of Rage - The Book of Blood, reprinted in Victories of the Space Marines, Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus, Space Marines: The Omnibus and Sons of Sanguinius
  • The Returned - Legends of the Space Marines, reprinted in Space Marines: The Omnibus and There Is Only War
  • Redeemed - Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus, reprinted in Hammer & Bolter #16, The Best of Hammer And Bolter Volume Two and Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus
  • Honours - Games Day UK 2012 Official Programme, reprinted in Black Library Advent Calendar 2012 and Sons of Sanguinius
  • The Fury - Space Marines: Angels of Death, reprinted in Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus and Sons of Sanguinius
  • Vigil - Space Marines: Angels of Death
  • Dante: Lord of the Host - Lords of the Space Marines, reprinted in Sons of Sanguinius
  • The Sanguinor: Exemplar of the Host - Lords of the Space Marines, reprinted in Sons of Sanguinius
  • Reflection in Blood - Black Library Advent Calendar 2014, reprinted in Blood Angels: The Complete Rafen Omnibus
  • Red & Black - Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus, reprinted in Crusade + Other Stories
  • Heart & Soul - Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus
  • Iron & Bone - ''Sisters of Battle Collection''

The Horus Heresy">The Horus Heresy (novels)">The Horus Heresy

  • The Voice - Tales of Heresy, audiobook
  • Liar's Due - Age of Darkness, reprinted in Lupercal's War, audiobook
  • Lost Sons - Black Library Weekender 2012 Anthology Volume One, reprinted in The Silent War, Lupercal's War, audiobook
  • All That Remains - The Imperial Truth, reprinted in War Without End, audiobook
  • Gunsight - Death And Defiance, reprinted in War Without End, audiobook
  • Exocytosis - Black Library Advent Calendar 2016, reprinted in Heralds of the Siege, audiobook
  • Ghosts Speak Not - Tales of the Knights Errant, reprinted in The Silent War, audiobook
  • Patience - Tales of the Knights Errant, reprinted in The Silent War, audiobook
  • The Chamber at the End of Memory - Scions of the Emperor, reprinted in Heirs of the Emperor
  • Lantern's Light - Black Library Celebration 2019, reprinted in ''Heirs of the Emperor''

2000AD">2000 AD (comics)">2000AD

[Star Trek]

  • Closure - Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores
  • Ordinary Days - Star Trek The Next Generation: The Sky's The Limit
  • The Black Flag - Star Trek Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows
  • The Slow Knife - Star Trek: Seven Deadly Sins
  • The Offer - Star Trek: Explorer #1, reprinted in Star Trek: Explorer Presents: Star Trek "Q And False" and Other Stories
  • The Mission - Star Trek: Explorer #6, reprinted in ''Star Trek: Explorer Presents: Star Trek "The Mission" and Other Stories''

[Doctor Who]

[Stargate]

  • Choices - Stargate: The Official Magazine #10
  • Outsiders - ''Stargate: The Official Magazine #20''

[BattleTech]

  • Straw Man – Battlecorps.com

Halo">Halo (series)">Halo

  • Breaking Strain - ''Halo: Fractures''

Other [tie-in] fiction

  • The Turn of The Card - Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, audiobook
  • Ashes & Iron - ''Adventures In No Man's Sky''

Non-fiction

  • The Manga Collector's Edition, Volume 1
  • Starlog: Star Trek's Greatest Guest Stars
  • Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher
  • Games Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames, revised 2nd edition
  • ''Above the Law: The Unofficial Guide to Star Cops''

Scriptwriting

[Star Trek: Voyager]

  • One, episode #193, 4th season
  • Memorial, episode #236, 6th season

[Doctor Who] audio drama

[Blake's 7] audio drama

  • Blake's 7 The Audio Adventures - Liberator
  • Blake's 7 The Early Years - Point of No Return
  • Blake's 7 The Early Years - Escape Velocity
  • ''Blake's 7 The Liberator Chronicles: Volume 7 - The Hard Road''

[Stargate] audio drama

  • Stargate SG-1 - Shell Game
  • Stargate Atlantis - Zero Point
  • Stargate SG-1 - First Prime
  • Stargate SG-1 - Half Life
  • Stargate SG-1 Series 1-2 Collected
  • Stargate SG-1 Series 3 Collected
  • ''Stargate Atlantis Series 1-2 Collected''

[Star Cops] audio drama

  • ''Star Cops: Blood Moon 2 - A Cage of Sky''

V">V (franchise)#Audio dramas">V audio drama

  • ''V UK: Occupation - Episode 4''

2000AD">2000 AD (comics)">2000AD audio drama

[Warhammer 40,000] audio drama

  • Heart of Rage, appears in prose form in The Book of Blood, Victories of the Space Marines, Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus and Space Marines: The Omnibus, in script form in The Space Marine Script Book
  • Red & Black, appears in prose form in Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus
  • Corsair: The Face of the Void
  • Faith & Fire audiobook
  • Hammer & Anvil audiobook

The Horus Heresy">The Horus Heresy (novels)">The Horus Heresy audio drama

  • Oath of Moment, in script form in The Horus Heresy: The Scripts Volume 1, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Legion of One, in script form in The Horus Heresy: The Scripts Volume 1, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Liar's Due, appears in prose form in Age of Darkness and Lupercal's War
  • Sword of Truth, in script form in The Horus Heresy: The Scripts Volume 2, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Fear to Tread
  • The Flight of the Eisenstein
  • Burden of Duty, in script form in The Horus Heresy: The Scripts Volume 2, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Shield of Lies, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Nemesis
  • The Voice, appears in prose form in Tales of Heresy
  • Knight Errant
  • Ashes of Fealty, appears in prose form in Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Garro: Weapon of Fate
  • Lost Sons - audiobook, appears in prose form in Black Library Weekender 2012 Anthology Volume One, The Silent War and Lupercal's War
  • All That Remains - audiobook, appears in prose form in The Imperial Truth and War Without End
  • Gunsight - audiobook, appears in prose form in Death And Defiance and War Without End
  • Ghosts Speak Not - audiobook, appears in prose form in Tales of the Knights Errant and The Silent War
  • Patience - audiobook, appears in prose form in Tales of the Knights Errant and The Silent War
  • Exocytosis audiobook, appears in prose form in Black Library Advent Calendar 2016 and Heralds of the Siege
  • The Buried Dagger
  • ''Garro: Knight of Grey''

[Dan Dare] audio drama

  • ''Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures Volume 01 - Episode 2 The Red Moon Mystery''

[Space 1889] audio drama

  • ''The Steppes of Thoth''

Videogames

Comics

Commando">Commando Comics">Commando

  • Edge of the Sky
  • J-For-Judas
  • Fog of War
  • Target Tomcat
  • Old Dogs
  • Duel in the Dark
  • Fallen Sabre
  • ''Pressure Point''

Rivers of London">Rivers of London (novel)">Rivers of London

  • Here Be Dragons #1
  • Here Be Dragons #2
  • Here Be Dragons #3
  • ''Here Be Dragons #4''

Stingray">Stingray (1964 TV series)">Stingray

  • "The Undefeated" - Tales from the Depths, reprinted in Deadly Uprising
  • "Triple Cross" - Battle Lines, reprinted in ''Deadly Uprising''

Other credits