Lewis ( Out of the Silent Planet, not Narnia), Tolkien, and his older sister's copy of Lady Chatterley". read voraciously, everything from Dan Dare to the Larousse Mythology, Conan Doyle, C.
He died in Edinburgh on 12 August 2018, aged 67. Rohan was diagnosed with an incurable illness in 2000, and after that, stopped writing fiction. It was at this point he began writing some of the works for which he is now best known – The Hammer and the Cross and Run to the Stars. This job he held for five years, until taking voluntary redundancy in 1978. Achieving his Masters in 1973, Rohan left the legal field and went to work for an international publishing firm editing encyclopedias. He asserted that during his time studying, and after, he held various casual jobs, including "librarian, software technical writer, editor, translator, and shipping rare botanical specimens around the world". He also met his future wife, Philadelphia native and Stanford post-graduate Deborah, through the Group. Here he met the Group's president, Allan Scott, who would later become his co-author of several books. It was during his time as a student that he joined the Science Fiction group. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Edmund Hall, Oxford University where, having initially planned to study English, changed to study law. Rohan was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, in, apparently, the house next door to that of the author Robert Louis Stevenson. During World War II he joined the British Army. His father was of French origin, born on Mauritius but educated in France, and later studied at the University of Edinburgh.
In the "Author's Note" to The Lord of Middle Air, Rohan asserted that he and Walter Scott have a common ancestor in Michael Scot, who is a character in the novel.Īccording to his entry on the website of the Little, Brown Book Group, "after many years in Oxford and Yorkshire (they moved to Leeds in 1984), he and his American wife Deborah (Archives Conservator for Cambridgeshire) lived (as of 1994) in a small village near Cambridge, next to the pub." He also wrote the Spiral novels, in which our world is the Hub, or Core, of a spiral of mythic and legendary versions of familiar cities, countries and continents. Rohan is best known for the trilogy The Winter of the World, set in the Ice Age. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire. He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. Michael Scott Rohan (22 January 1951 – 12 August 2018) was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.
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