Scott Lynch (born April 2, 1978)
Career
Lynch's debut novel,
The Lies of Locke Lamora, was a World Fantasy Award finalist in 2007.
In 2007 and 2008 Lynch was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Lynch received the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award from the British Fantasy Society in 2008.
Biography
Lynch was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on April 2, 1978, and is the eldest of three brothers. He spent his early life in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In 2004, he moved to New Richmond, Wisconsin,
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Massachusetts.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora, Lynch's first novel, was bought by Simon Spanton at Orion Books in August, 2004 and published in June, 2006. Prior to that he worked at different jobs: dishwasher, busboy, waiter, web designer, office manager, prep cook, and freelance writer.
Lynch's second novel, Red Seas Under Red Skies, was published in 2007, and his third, The Republic of Thieves, was published in 2013. They, together with the forthcoming The Thorn of Emberlain and its sequels, comprise the Gentleman Bastard Sequence .
Lynch has a background in firefighting and emergency services. He was initially trained and certified as a firefighter at Anoka Technical College in Minnesota in 2005, and from 2005 to 2016 he was a paid-on-call firefighter for the city of New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Lynch married his first wife, Jenny, in August 2006;
Books
Gentleman Bastard Sequence
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (June 27, 2006)
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Red Seas Under Red Skies (June 20, 2007)
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The Republic of Thieves (October 8, 2013)
In October 2024, the first half of the short story "Locke Lamora and the Bottled Serpent" was published in Grimdark Magazine #40,
with the remainder published in #41 in January 2025.
Planned works in the series
The Thorn of Emberlain,
The Ministry of Necessity,
The Mage and the Master Spy and
Inherit the Night are projected to conclude the series. The
"More Than Fools Fill Graves" (forthcoming),
"The Mad Baron's Mechanical Attic" (forthcoming)
and "The Choir of Knives" (forthcoming)
are also projected.
Overview
The series takes place in the world of the shattered Therin Throne Empire and its successor states. It follows the life of the young professional thief and con artist Locke Lamora, over a period of some fifteen to twenty years. The world described has a society and technology analogous to that of 16th or 17th century, but with some differences. It has considerable
gender equality,
crossbows in place of even rudimentary
firearms, functional
alchemy and magic.
Lynch has described each novel of the series as "covering what you might call a different general situation" with "the same characters getting into trouble but the backdrop changes."
Queen of the Iron Sands
In August 2009 Lynch began to publish the online novel
Queen of the Iron Sands,
a planetary romance, in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs'
Barsoom novels. The story concerns a female aviator and ex-WASP who is transported to a fantastic
Mars. Chapters were scheduled to be released weekly. The serialization ran until September 2009 and picked up in June 2010 and halted again in September 2012.
Selected awards and honors
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| British Fantasy Society | British Fantasy Awards,
August Derleth Fantasy Award (Novel) | The Lies of Locke Lamora | | |
| Locus | Locus Award
First Novel | The Lies of Locke Lamora | | |
| Locus | Locus Award
Fantasy Novel | The Lies of Locke Lamora | | |
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External links
Interviews
