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Welcome to the web page of Matthew Hughes, science fiction and fantasy author. For professional inquiries, I am now represented by John Berlyne of the Zeno Agency.

My stand-alone Archonate novel, Template, has now been released in trade paperback in the US by Paizo Publishing. For the series-averse, it is a good introduction to the Archonate milieu in which many of my stories are set. It is available on Amazon.com or directly from Paizo Publishing.

For Luff Imbry fans, two limited edition chapbooks of "Quartet and Triptych", a novella, are available from PS Publishing.

The third Tale Henghis Hapthorn, Hespira, was released by Night Shade Books in late 2009. The first chapter is here.

The complete Guth Bandar saga, which appeared in several episodes in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, has been published as a novel, The Commons, from Robert J. Sawyer Books. You can read one of the episodes: here.

The first and second Henghis Hapthorn novels, Majestrum and The Spiral Labyrinth, are now available in trade paperback from Night Shade Books. Clink on the links above to read the first chapter of each.

My short story collection, The Gist Hunter & Other Stories, from Night Shade Books is still in stores. It contains all six Henghis Hapthorn stories that have run in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction plus three Guth Bandar novelettes.

Read the first chapter of Black Brillion.

You can also read the first chapters of the previous Archonate books, Fools Errant and Fool Me Twice.

The latest news on upcoming magazine stories, readings and so on is here.

Here is my complete bibliography.

And here's my bio.