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Michael Scott Rohan

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Michael Scott Rohan


Born
in Edinburgh, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1951

Died
August 12, 2018

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Michael Scott Rohan (born 1951 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.

He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.

Rohan is best known for the Ice Age-set trilogy The Winter of the World. He also wrote the Spiral novels, in which our world is the Hub, or Core, of a spiral of mythic and legendary versions of familiar citi
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The Anvil of Ice (The Winte...

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The Forge in the Forest (Th...

4.08 avg rating — 858 ratings — published 1987 — 15 editions
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The Hammer of the Sun (The ...

4.13 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 1988 — 19 editions
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Chase the Morning (The Spir...

4.09 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 1990
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The Castle of the Winds (Th...

4.07 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Cloud Castles (The Spiral, #3)

4.10 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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The Singer and the Sea (The...

3.95 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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Shadow of the Seer (The Win...

3.87 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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A Spell of Empire

3.71 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions
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