Creator / Catherine Fisher

Catherine Fisher is a Welsh author and poet currently based in Gwent province. She has published multiple novels, mainly for a young adult audience, and many poems in various anthologies. Her writing trends towards the Science Fantasy and Steampunk aesthetics, often with a distinctly British flavour.

Catherine Fisher's works include:

The Oracle Trilogy

• The Oracle
• The Archon
• The Scarab

The Snow-Walker Trilogy

• The Snow-Walker's Son
• The Empty Hand
• The Soul Thieves

Relic Master

• The Relic Master/The Dark City
• The Interrex/The Lost Heiress
• Alain's Coronet/The Hidden Coronet
• The Margrave

Incarceron

• Incarceron
• Sapphique

Chronoptika Quartet

• The Obsidian Mirror
• The Box of Red Brocade/The Slanted Worlds
• The Door in the Moon
• The Speed of Darkness

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Tropes that appear frequently in her works:

• Bad Future: Ranges from Feudal Future in Relic Master to "future is literally nonexistent" in Chronoptika.
• Creator Thumbprint: Dark-haired men in long coats. Epigraphs for every chapter. Frequent semicolons. Shadow Archetypes. Apotheotic storylines.
• Encyclopedia Exposita
• Pro-Human Transhuman: The characters that achieve some kind of apotheosis usually remain benevolent, at least for a given value of "benevolent".
• ScienceFantasy
• Shadow Archetype
• Steampunk
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Usually appears in triplicate with the gang of heroes and the Big Bad.