The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (2011 a Langdon St.'Lord Kelvin's Machine' (1985) – Expanded into a novel in 1992.The Aylesford Skull (2013 a Langdon St.Zeuglodon (2012 sequel to The Digging Leviathan).

Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992) – Expansion of the eponymous 1985 novelette.

Sharing the character of villain Ignacio Narbondo The Digging Leviathan and its sequel Zeuglodon are contemporary fantasies set in 1960s California, while the remainder are steampunk novels set in Victorian England.

The Man in the Moon (2002) – The original manuscript, initially rejected, from which The Elfin Ship was reworked, with commentary and an additional short story.

Whimsical fantasy inspired, according to the author, by Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit. They have two sons, John and Danny.īlaylock's short story 'Thirteen Phantasms' won the 1997 World Fantasy Award for best Short Fiction. He has been married to his wife, Viki Blaylock, for more than 40 years.

Blaylock and Powers have often collaborated with each other on writing stories, including 'The Better Boy', 'On Pirates', and 'The William Ashbless Memorial Cookbook'.īlaylock previously served as director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County High School of the Arts until 2013, where Powers has also been Writer in Residence. Along with Powers, Blaylock invented the poet William Ashbless. His works have also been categorized as magic realism. Many of his books are set in Orange County, California, and can more specifically be termed ' fabulism' – that is, fantastic things happen in our present-day world, rather than in high fantasy, where the setting is often some other world. He taught at the Orange County School of the arts until 2013. in 1974 and lives in Orange, California, teaching creative writing at Chapman University.

He was born in Long Beach, California studied English at California State University, Fullerton, receiving an M.A. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens as his inspirations. He is noted for a distinctive, humorous style, as well as being one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre of science fiction. James Paul Blaylock (born September 20, 1950) is an American fantasy author.

The Paper Grail by James P. Blaylock