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6	Stephen Hunt is a British author. He was born in Canada in the sixties and studied in the United Kingdom. He worked for a time managing the online services of a number of newspapers and journals, until he broke into writing in the 90's.
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8	His first works were short stories published in science fiction magazines. One of his stories, ''Hollow Duelists'', won the 1992 Proto-Stellar magazine prize for best short fiction story. Two years later he published his first book, ''For the Crown and the Dragon''. The book was instrumental in the creation of the fantasy SubGenre called Flintlock Fantasy, a cousin of steampunk that draws on themes and depictions of Napoleon and Georgian era aesthetics.
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10	His second book, ''Literature/TheCourtOfTheAir'', sparked the ''Literature/JackelianSeries'', a fantasy steampunk world with Hunt's unique flintlock aesthetic. Other books in the series are ''The Kingdom Beyond the Waves'', ''The Rise of the Iron Moon'', ''Secrets of the Fire Sea'', ''Jack Cloudie'' and ''From the Deep of the Dark''.
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12	Other series written by him are the ''Sliding Void Sequence'' and the ''Far-called Sequence''. Hunt also runs the fansite ''SF Crowsnest'', which can be found [[http://sfcrowsnest.org.uk/ here.]]
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14	!!Tropes featured in his works
15	* TenMinuteRetirement: Jared Black. He just never gets to settle down even though he really wants to.
16	%%* AffablyEvil
17	%%* AdventurerArchaeologist: Amelia Harsh
18	%%* BlueBlood
19	* ColdBloodedTorture: Used to manipulate machines in ''The Court of the Air''
20	%%* ComeToGawk
21	%%* CrystalDragonJesus
22	* DeathSeeker: Boxiron has shades of this at times.
23	%%* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
24	%%* DueToTheDead
25	* EmpathicWeapon: Several. Notably in the Court of the Air, a legendary Steaman weapon is shown to be sentient, and it seems that the others are as well.
26	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: An England where the UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar resulted in a crushing of the king and the church is avowedly disbelieving in any gods; a France where UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution went on and on and many more.
27	%%* FisherKing
28	%%* FloatingContinent
29	* GambitPileup: The Secrets of the Fire Sea turns out to be based on one
30	%%* GeneticMemory
31	* KingInTheMountain: Invoked in an allusion
32	%%* LukeIAmYourFather
33	%%* MadeASlave
34	%%* TheMagnificent
35	%%* {{Mayincatec}}
36	%%* MeaningfulRename
37	* MechanicalLifeforms: The Steammen were apparently created in the distant distant past as robotic servants, but are now fully sentient living beings, and have their own free state and government.
38	* PowderKegCrowd: The king is displayed for abuse to disarm it.
39	* RoyalBlood: A very bad thing to have in the parliamentarian Kingdom of Jackals; royals are deliberately bred and kept around to be abused and vilified.
40	%%* SkyPirate
41	%%* SacredHospitality
42	%%* SwissArmyTears
43	%%* TalkingWeapon: Lord Wireburn
44	* {{Transflormation}}: A rather [[HumanResources grim]] form serves as a food source in ''The Court of the Air.''
45	%%* TrulySingleParent
46	* UnableToSupportAWife: Jethro, after ejection from the Circlist church.
47	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: a lot of major villains start out this way, but go careening off the slippery slope towards the end. It doesn't help that their ideas of utopia are often different from others peoples.
48	%%* WellIntentionedExtremist
49	%%* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld

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