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Adrian Cole

b. 1949

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Born 1949. Adrian Cole is a British writer.

Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the Omaran Saga and Star Requiem series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants.

Biography Adrian Cole was born in 1949 in Plymouth, Devon. Cole's father was in the Army, and Adrian spent three years with his family in Malaya when he was a young child, before settling back in Devon.

He has had short stories published in The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (DAW Books) and Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and he was once nominated for the former Balrog Award. His first shared-world novel was The Crimson Talisman, which is set in the realm of Eberron. ) Longbore the Inexhaustible (1978)

Other collections Tough Guys (2016)

Other short fiction "Wired Tales" (1973) "The Horror Under Penmire" (1974) "The Genuine Article" (1974) "The Kiss of Asgard" (1975) "City of Gargoyles" (1976) "The Sleeping God" (1976) "The Coming of the Voidal" (1977) "Bodoman of Sor" (1977) [only as by Norma N. Johns] "The Demon in the Stone" (1977) "Scars" (1977) "The Moon Web" (1978) "Longbore the Inexhaustible" (1978) "'The Lurking Shadow on the Threshold of the Shunned House's Doorstep (The Big Heap)" by Ray Manhandler'" (1978) "Transmuto, the Metamorphic Myrmidon" (1978) "Offside" (1979) "First Make Them Mad" (1979) "Astral Stray" (1979) "At the Council of Gossipers" (1980) "Krobar the Unbelievable" (1980) "Midnight Hag" (1980) "Snow Demons" (1983) "Face to Face" (1990) "Only Human" (1991) "Revenge of the Heavy Metal Vampires" (1991) "Heart of the Beast" (1994) "The Crossing" (1994) "The Frankenstein Legacy" (1994) "Treason in Zagadar" (1994) "The Shadow Navigator" (1995) "The War Among the Gods (Part 13 of 17)" (1997) "Dark Destroyer" (2000) "The Castle of Glass" (2000) "Demon's Eye View" (2001) "A Ship of Monstrous Fortune" (2003) "The War Among the Gods" (2008) "The Sound of Distant Gunfire" (2012) "The Chaos Blade" (2012) "The Shadow Academy" (excerpt) (2014) "Running With the Tide" (2015) "Demon Driver" (2015) "Late Shift" (2015) "Give Me the Daggers" (2015) "A Girl and Her Dolls" (2015) "The Door into Envy" (2016) "Train to Nowhere" (2016) "In Blackwalk Wood" (2016) "A Smell of Burning" (2016) "If You Don't Eat Your Meat" (2016) "Not If You Want to Live" (2016) "Wait for the Ricochet" (2016) "The Sealed City" (2016) "Slayers at the Gate" (2017) "The Third Movement" (2017) "A Kiss for the Mirrorman" (2017) "A Killing in Karkesh" (2017) "A Beast by Any Other Name" (2017) "The Pullulations of the Tribe" (2017) "Tear Down the Stars" (2017) "No Holds Bard" (2017) "Iconoclasm" (2018) "An Unfamiliar Familiar" (2018) "The Summoning of a Genie in Error" (2018) "You'd Do It for Diamonds" (2018) "Up the Lazy River" (2018) "The Next Time It Rains" (2018) "No Other God But Me" (2018) "Queen of the Hunt" (2018) "Broken Billy" (2018) "Enter the Cobweb Queen" (2019) "Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face" (2019) "Cold Storage" (2019) "Return of the Dark Brotherhood" (2020) "Revenge of the Sorceror" (2020)

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British Fantasy Award for Best Collection
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Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole

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Who is Adrian Cole?

English writer

When was Adrian Cole born?

Adrian Cole was born on 22 July 1949 in Plymouth.

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Adrian Cole is a writer.

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Adrian Cole is British.

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· Wikipedia: Adrian Cole

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