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As of 2017, after informing readers of his diagnosis with diabetes, Green has announced his intention to wrap up his currently-ongoing novel series, the better to avert OrphanedSeries should his health worsen. Short stories set in the Nightside, the Droods' milieu of intrigue, and so on will continue, and characters from past and present series will still make cameos in Green's future stand-alone works, because "[[WordOfGod that's what I do]]".
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As of 2017, after informing readers of his diagnosis with diabetes, Green has announced his intention to wrap up his currently-ongoing novel series, the better to avert OrphanedSeries should his health worsen. Short stories set in featuring the Nightside, the Droods' milieu of intrigue, Droods, the Carnacki Institute, and so on forth will continue, and characters from past and present series will still make cameos in Green's future stand-alone works, novels, because "[[WordOfGod that's what I do]]".
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As of 2017, after informing readers of his diagnosis with diabetes, Green has announced his intention to wrap up his currently-ongoing novel series, the better to avert OrphanedSeries should his health worsen. Short stories set in the Nightside, the Droods' milieu of intrigue, and so on will continue, and characters from past and present series will still make cameos in Green's future stand-alone works, because "[[WordOfGod that's what I do]]".
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* BattleCouple: Hawk and Fisher. Eddie and Molly. Taylor and Suzie. Lucy and Betty Coltrane.
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* BattleCouple: Hawk and Fisher. Eddie and Molly. Taylor and Suzie. Lucy and Betty Coltrane. Pretty much ''any'' Drood couple.
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* BattleCouple:BattleCouple: Hawk and Fisher. Eddie and Molly. Taylor and Suzie. Lucy and Betty Coltrane.
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* AngelsDevilsAndSquidAngelsDevilsAndSquid: Particularly apparent in the Nightside. And ''never'' presume that the angels are the friendly option...
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** References to things ''other than'' Nature - entertainment, cuisine, gambling - being "red in tooth and claw" crop up occasionally, as did one instance (in an AlternateReality) where Nature was "[[ManEatingPlant red in thorn and branch]]" instead.
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* AndIMustScream: Showing people trapped in fates worse than death is one of Green's stock KickTheDog methods, to make it all the more satisfying when the baddies responsible get their nasty arses kicked.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Practically any character, creature, or artifact that rates a title In Capital Letters can be counted on to be powerful, scary, heavy on the magic, or all three. Subverted with John Taylor's deceptively-humdrum name and the rainbow sword from the ''Forest Kingdom'' novels.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Practically any character, creature, or artifact that rates a title In Capital Letters can be counted on to be powerful, scary, heavy on the magic, or all three. Subverted with John Taylor's deceptively-humdrum name name, and the unnamed rainbow sword from the ''Forest Kingdom'' novels.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Practically any character, creature, or artifact that rates a title In Capital Letters can be counted on to be powerful, scary, heavy on the magic, or all three. Subverted with John Taylor's deceptively-humdrum name and the rainbow sword from the ''Forest Kingdom'' novels.
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Entities referred to as "Transient Beings" crop up in many of Green's series, and embody concepts or abstractions in the flesh. Not ''literally'' Anthropomorphic in this case, as many are non-humanoid.
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** ...and it was the easiest thing in the world to [something awesome].
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He also wrote the independent horror film, Judas Ghost, which is in the same setting as most of his books.
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* ShoutOut: Several references to the works of MRJames turn up in his novels.
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* ShoutOut: Several references to the works of MRJames Creator/MRJames turn up in his novels.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever the series, it's always dangerous to use the Sight in the Greenverse, because seeing too much of how the world ''really'' is can destroy humans' sanity. Also, it's been suggested repeatedly that humanity was denied our original destiny: one that's ''completely'' at odds with anything we've imagined it to be, such that learning what it is either drives us insane or converts us into incomprehensible StarfishAliens.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever the series, it's always dangerous to use the Sight in the Greenverse, because seeing too much of how the world ''really'' is can destroy humans' sanity. Also, it's been suggested repeatedly suggested that long ago, humanity was denied our original destiny: one that's ''completely'' at odds with anything we've imagined it to be, such that learning what it is either drives us insane or converts us into incomprehensible StarfishAliens.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever the series, it's always dangerous to use the Sight in the Greenverse, because seeing too much of how the world ''really'' is can destroy humans' sanity.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Whatever the series, it's always dangerous to use the Sight in the Greenverse, because seeing too much of how the world ''really'' is can destroy humans' sanity. Also, it's been suggested repeatedly that humanity was denied our original destiny: one that's ''completely'' at odds with anything we've imagined it to be, such that learning what it is either drives us insane or converts us into incomprehensible StarfishAliens.
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* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: If it's a cryptid, it's bound to turn up in one series or another.
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* BatmanColdOpen: All three of the modern fantasy works have employed this, as have the Hawk & Fisher novels.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* CatchPhrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when we say variations on the first one, we mean he's gotten [[UnusualEuphemism pretty damn creative.]] Also, he ''loves'' to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* CatchPhrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when we say variations on the first one, we mean he's gotten [[UnusualEuphemism pretty damn creative.]] Also, he ''loves'' to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
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* BatmanColdOpen: All three of the modern fantasy works have employed this, as have the Hawk & Fisher novels.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* CatchPhrase:AuthorCatchPhrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when we say variations on the first one, we mean he's gotten [[UnusualEuphemism pretty damn creative.]] Also, he ''loves'' to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
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* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
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* A new series called ''The Ishmael Jones Mysteries''.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: While characters from his three UrbanFantasy series (Nightside, Secret Histories, Ghost Finders) have had a few crossover cameos and numerous back-and-forth references, each series has to solve its own problems. Thus, we don't see Droods participating in the Lilith War or John Taylor dropping by to Find ghosts with his Gift.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: While characters from his three UrbanFantasy series (Nightside, Secret Histories, Ghost Finders) have had a few crossover cameos cameos, and numerous back-and-forth references, references are name-dropped, each series still has to solve its own problems. Thus, we don't see Droods participating in the Lilith War or hunting the Flesh Undying, or John Taylor dropping by to Find ghosts with his Gift.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: While characters from his three UrbanFantasy series (Nightside, Secret Histories, Ghost Finders) have had a few crossover cameos and numerous back-and-forth references, each series has to solve its own problems. Thus, we don't see Droods participating in the Lilith War or John Taylor dropping by to Find ghosts with his Gift.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Drinking Midnight Wine'', the first Greenverse novel to feature characters from our own Earth and era, depicts the real and magical worlds as side-by-side realities (Veritie and Mysterie) that don't interact much, with magic being greatly weakened in the former and science, little-known in the latter. All his later UrbanFantasy works depict the extraordinary as a fully-integrated, albeit secretive component of ''our'' world, equally-rich in fantasy, weird science, and the supernatural, that's only kept hidden from the masses by a combination of TheMasquerade, InvisibleToNormals, and a whole lot of WeirdnessCensor.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''Drinking Midnight Wine'', the first Greenverse novel to feature characters from our own Earth and era, depicts the real and magical worlds as side-by-side realities (Veritie and Mysterie) that don't interact much, with magic being greatly weakened in the former and science, little-known in the latter. All his later UrbanFantasy works depict the extraordinary as a fully-integrated, albeit secretive component of ''our'' world, equally-rich in fantasy, sorcery, weird science, and the supernatural, that's only kept hidden from the masses by a combination of TheMasquerade, InvisibleToNormals, and a whole lot of WeirdnessCensor.
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** Green's more recent works tend to feature novel ways of threatening to smack people (e.g. "I've got a slap in my pocket, want to borrow it?").
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* HandOfGlory: A recurring feature of his fantasy works, along with aboriginal pointing bones.
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''Literature/GhostFinders''
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British {{science fiction}} and {{fantasy}} author.
He created the following series:
* ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}''
* ''Hawk and Fisher''
* ''Literature/{{Nightside}}''
* ''Literature/SecretHistories''
* ''The Twilight of the Empire'' (prelude to the ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' series)
* the ''Forest Kingdom'' series which is set in the same continuity as Hawk and Fisher.
* ''GhostFinders''
As well as some stand-alone books:
* ''Drinking Midnight Wine''
* ''Shadows Fall''
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!!This writer provides examples of:
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid
* AuthorAppeal: Expect a love of TheSixties to crop up in any modern fantasy series he writes.
* BatmanColdOpen: All three of the modern fantasy works have employed this.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* CatchPhrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when we say variations on the first one, we mean he's gotten [[UnusualEuphemism pretty damn creative.]] Also, he ''loves'' to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
** ''blank'' always lies; unless the truth hurts more.
** [[Theatre/DoctorFaustus Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.]]
** Ah, the old jokes are the best.
** But then, you would say that, wouldn't you.
** There's some shit with which I will not put up.
** "[something possibly negative]," they said, not unkindly.
* DeusExMachina: Frequent and unashamed.
* EldritchAbomination: He absolutely loves them. Even more, he loves having his heroes bitch-slap them and laugh in their faces.
* FantasyKitchenSink: UpToEleven
* RuleOfCool: Done in '''all''' of his works
* ShoutOut: Several references to the works of MRJames turn up in his novels.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed
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He created the following series:
* ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}''
* ''Hawk and Fisher''
* ''Literature/{{Nightside}}''
* ''Literature/SecretHistories''
* ''The Twilight of the Empire'' (prelude to the ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' series)
* the ''Forest Kingdom'' series which is set in the same continuity as Hawk and Fisher.
* ''GhostFinders''
As well as some stand-alone books:
* ''Drinking Midnight Wine''
* ''Shadows Fall''
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!!This writer provides examples of:
* AngelsDevilsAndSquid
* AuthorAppeal: Expect a love of TheSixties to crop up in any modern fantasy series he writes.
* BatmanColdOpen: All three of the modern fantasy works have employed this.
* BattleCouple:
* CanonWelding: He's managed to tie in almost all of his own personal property without even resorting to parallel dimensions (though those do exist in his works).
* CatchPhrase: In all three of his urban fantasy series, he uses variations on "Needs must, when the devil drives" and "Suddenly and messily." And when we say variations on the first one, we mean he's gotten [[UnusualEuphemism pretty damn creative.]] Also, he ''loves'' to have his characters to use their over-the-top reputations to intimidate their foes.
** ''blank'' always lies; unless the truth hurts more.
** [[Theatre/DoctorFaustus Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.]]
** Ah, the old jokes are the best.
** But then, you would say that, wouldn't you.
** There's some shit with which I will not put up.
** "[something possibly negative]," they said, not unkindly.
* DeusExMachina: Frequent and unashamed.
* EldritchAbomination: He absolutely loves them. Even more, he loves having his heroes bitch-slap them and laugh in their faces.
* FantasyKitchenSink: UpToEleven
* RuleOfCool: Done in '''all''' of his works
* ShoutOut: Several references to the works of MRJames turn up in his novels.
* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed
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