title: Stephen Deas
text: # Stephen Deas
  
  Stephen Deas, born in 1968 in Southeast England, is an English fantasy author. He is most famous for his fantasy opus, the Memory of Flames sequence, set in a fantasy world inhabited by dragons.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Deas was raised in a town full of army veterans. He has a bachelor's degree in theoretical physics at Cambridge University and had a job at BAE Systems, doing "mathsy stuff". He now lives in Essex, writes full-time, and is married and has two children, Christopher Raphael Deas and Evan Alexander Deas.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Memory of Flames
  
  * The Adamantine Palace (2009)
  * The King of the Crags (2010)
  * The Order of the Scales (2011)
  
  ### Thief-Taker's Apprentice
  
  * The Thief-Taker's Apprentice (2010)
  * The Warlock's Shadow (2011)
  * The King's Assassin (2012)
  
  ### Silver Kings
  
  * Dragon Queen (2013)
  * The Splintered Gods (2014)
  * The Black Mausoleum (2012)
  * The Silver Kings (2015)
  
  ### Dominion
  
  * The Moonsteel Crown (2021)
  * The House of Cats and Gulls (2022)
  * Herald of the Black Moon (coming in 2023)
  
  ### (As SK Sharp)
  
  * I Know What I Saw (2020)
  
  ### (As Sam Peters)
  
  * From Darkest Skies (2017)
  * From Distant Stars (2018)
  * From Divergent Suns (2019)
  
  ### (As Nathan Hawke)
  
  * The Crimson Shield (2013)
  * Cold Redemption (2013)
  * The Last Bastion (2013)
  
  ### (As Gavin Deas, SF collaborations with SF author Gavin Smith)
  
  * Elite: Wanted (2014)
  * Empires: Infiltration (2014)
  * Empires: Extraction (2014)
  
  ### (As Sapper)
  
  * Bulldog Drummond, Dead Man's Gate (2014)
  * Bulldog Drummond and the Faceless Men
  * Bulldog Drummond and the Jaguar Mask
  
  ### (As S. J. Deas)
  
  * The Royalist (2014)
  * The Protector (2015)
  