PHILIP ADE

Philip Ade writes science fiction and fantasy about power, memory, and the people history tries to erase.

His epic fantasy saga, The Riverfire Crown — The Smith of Ashes, The Crown of the Drowned Queen, and The War of Three Crowns — unfolds in a fallen kingdom ruled by an empire that taxes everything it can count. At its heart are a blacksmith who becomes a legend he never asked to be, the lost heir of a drowned queen, and the ordinary hands who refuse to be forgotten. It is a story about what truly survives an empire: not miracles or returning heroes, but the long, unglamorous courage of the living.

In science fiction, his novel The Gravity Rebellion opens with an alien mothership over New York and a single chilling premise — that humanity was never the hero of its own story. Only the harvest.

By day, Philip teaches people to drive; by night, he builds empires and burns them down. He lives in the United Kingdom, drawn to mountains, open air,