Stan Nicholls

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-29

Stan Nicholls is a British author and journalist, born in London in 1949, who has written full time since 1981. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Time Out, Sight and Sound, SFX and Locus, among many other outlets. He worked for several specialist bookshops, including Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed, and was the first manager of the London branch of Forbidden Planet. He is best known for his Orcs novels, which tell the story of the fantasy genre’s traditional villains from their own side: the Orcs: First Blood trilogy (1999 to 2000) and the Orcs: Bad Blood trilogy (2008 to 2011). His other fantasy includes the Nightshade trilogy and the Quicksilver trilogy, published in the United States as the Dreamtime trilogy. In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award at the Trolls et Légendes festival in Mons, Belgium, and he chaired the steering group that founded the David Gemmell Legend Award for fantasy in 2008. He lives in the West Midlands with his wife, the writer Anne Gay.

Universe(s)

Books

• Bodyguard of Lightning (1999) · Orcs Core Canon
• Legion of Thunder (1999) · Orcs Core Canon
• Warriors of the Tempest (2000) · Orcs Core Canon
• Weapons of Magical Destruction (2008) · Orcs Core Canon
• Army of Shadows (2009) · Orcs Core Canon
• Inferno (2011) · Orcs Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 6 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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