Starhammer was followed by The Vang: The Military Form and The Vang: The Battlemaster to form a loosely connected trilogy (all published by Ballantine Books) spanning several thousand years and involving different sets of characters in each book. His novel Starhammer has been cited by computer programmer Jason Jones as an important literary influence in the creation of the Halo video game series by Bungie. The War for Eternity led to three further novels set in the same future: The Black Ship, The Founder, and To a Highland Nation. Rowley's first science fiction novel was The War for Eternity, published in 1983, which won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel. In 1977 he moved to New York City, and now lives in upstate New York's Hudson Valley. Educated primarily at Brentwood School, in Essex, England, he became a London-based journalist in the 1970s. He is also a former journalist and television screenwriter.Ĭhristopher Rowley was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts, to an American mother and an English father. Christopher Rowley (born 1948) is an American writer specializing in the science fiction and fantasy genres.
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