Allen Stroud
| Allen Stroud | |
|---|---|
| Residence | High Wycombe, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Lecturer, writer |
| Employer | Bucks New University |
| Known for | Sci-fi Fantasy Writing |
| Notable work | Writing for Elite: Dangerous, Chaos Reborn, Phoenix Point |
| Website | http://www.allenstroud.com/ |
Allen Stroud is a Lecturer at Bucks New University, where he is the Course Leader for Film and Television Production and the Creative Writing for Publication degrees. He is the editor for the British Fantasy Society Journal. He also composes instrumental music; however, Stroud is best known for his sci-fi fantasy novels and video game writing.
He is the 2017 and 2018 chair of Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society, which hosts the British Fantasy Awards.
Stroud first became known for his video game writing with his work on world-building and novelisation of Video games such as Elite: Dangerous. For Elite: Dangerous, he wrote six guidebooks that inform the fictional narrative within the game and also serve to help other writers with the novelisation of their stories within the game's world. He also became a founding and continuing host of Lave Radio, a free podcast related to Elite: Dangerous that started in February 2013. His novelisation of the Elite: Dangerous game world began after he completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for the novel, Elite: Lave Revolution. Stroud is now working on a team which is developing a role-playing game set in the Elite: Dangerous game world.
Stroud's next video game world-building and novelisation work occurred with the development of Chaos Reborn. For Chaos Reborn, he worked collaboratively with the game's designer, Julian Gollop, to devise history and lore for the game world.
Now, Stroud is working closely with Gollop and another experienced writer, Jonas Kyratzes, to develop the Dystopian world of a new game in development, Phoenix Point. Many of Stroud's short stories for Phoenix Point have been made available to readers for free.
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