Home of Chris Howard, science fiction & fantasy author of Seaborn, Nanowhere, Dryad, Illustrator of steampunk cities, deep forests, & life on the ocean floor, software engineer.
Just a creative guy with a pen and a paint brush, author of Seaborn (Juno Books, 2008), Salvage (Masque/Prime, 2013), Nanowhere (Lykeion, 2005),and a shelf-full
of other books. My short stories have appeared in a bunch of zines, latest is “Lost Dogs and Fireplace Archeology”
in Fantasy Magazine. My story “Hammers and Snails” was a Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Short Fiction
Contest winner. I write and illustrate the comic Saltwater Witch. My art has
appeared in Shimmer, BuzzyMag, various RPGs, and on the pages of books, blogs, and other interesting places.
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Everything you want to know, including character lists, RPG Notes, magic, maps, family trees, and timeline details for the Seaborn World
Character name generators--contemporary and seaborn names, story idea sparkers, word lists
"Seaborn Scroll", one 12 foot long continuous illustration showing the ocean from surface to the abyss with some of the themes and characters from the book Seaborn
Journal of Chris Howard, science fiction & fantasy author of Seaborn, Nanowhere, Dryad, Illustrator of steampunk cities, software engineer
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Commissioned digital painting and illustration, watercolors, photo-manipulation. I work in several different styles.
Kassandra comes from the sea, but she has no memory of saltwater, seagulls, or an incoming tide.
She's never seen an ocean, never heard the thunder of surf. She's an exile, betrayed by her own
family, sent as far from the sea as they could arrange—somewhere in the middle of Nebraska.
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"From the first page of Seaborn, you are immersed. Chris Howard navigates a wild
ride through a brilliantly edgy and richly atmospheric alter-world. Here is a fresh,
formidable spin on sf/f and Howard is a talent to watch out for. Seaborn will leave you spellbound"
—ADELE GRIFFIN
Seaborn is a mix of The Little Mermaid story tossed with a limb or two of zombies
and entranced with a crimson droplet of ‘I see dead people’. It is a refreshing step away from
the cliché vampire or werewolf book; after all who really writes about things that go bump in the sea?
In a tale of two worlds colliding, humans and the Seaborn battle for the control of Poseidon’s regime
of the ocean, while bits of environmental controversy ooze through the pages like a hidden agenda.
—Angela Longstreet, BookFetish
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"Twists with elements of surprise and sheer inventiveness." The dramatic conclusion to the Seaborn
Trilogy: Kassandra prepares for war against her grandfather, and is confronted on all sides. Nikasia,
the daughter of the king's war-bard--who claims descent from Circe--seeks revenge for the murder of
her father. A group of immortals bands together to take everything away, and Kassandra must take them
on while holding her family together.
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Nanowhere... it's a love story with all the usual elements: rogue soldiers,
computer hacking, tyranny, cryptography, hit-men with an affinity for rolled adhesives, rebellious skateboarders,
and sentient billion-node self-organizing nanotech ghosts.
Here's a clip of Cory Doctorow's kind words on Boing Boing:
Chris Howard has released an...interesting and
well-written...sf thriller called Nanowhere along with a bunch of supplementary materials that purports
to be the lab notes and publications of one of the book's characters ...
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll... and Trees. Theodora Viran has a way with forests, blossoms, creeping vines, composting, paranoia, and sudden death. She sees deception in every shadow, a trap in every word, and the universe has always been someone else's manipulative game, but when she makes a promise to save a childhood friend, it becomes a promise she can't break without breaking her view of the world.
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The first book in an all new Seaborn series. Look for it summer 2013!
The Wreath of Poseidon is Saltwater Witch remixed by my daughter Chloe and I. This version of the story
is in 3rd person (Saltwater Witch is in 1st), and this version is a bit longer, contains more story, including
some scenes cut from the original. We went back to the original 3rd person story I wrote with some help from
a nine-year-old Chloe (She's eighteen now).
"A lively and smart fantasy"
—Dru Pagliassotti, author of Clockwork Heart
"An amazing fantasy...Teen fantasy readers will
excitedly follow Kassandra's every step as she
discovers who she really is."
—Flamingnet Review
Four stars. I could almost feel the raging sea…
—Curled up with a good kid's book
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Andin Teller can change the world with a pencil and paint brush. Teller isn't just his name. It's what
he is—someone who can change memories, reality and even shift time with the right story. But it doesn't come
without a cost. When he discovers his mother is part of an otherworldly organized crime family in the middle of a
secret war—and has been kidnapped by a rival family, Andin sets out to rescue her with his only two friends, Taryn,
a crazy mathematics genius, and deep-thinking, motorcycle-driving Itoshi. With their help, Andin navigates a world
he doesn't understand, taking on family betrayers, killers, and others like himself who have powers greater than his own.
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