Welcome to Tom Arden’s Web Site

Fantasy novelist Tom Arden is the author of the five-volume OROKON sequence, comprising The Harlequin’s Dance (1997), The King and Queen of Swords (1998), Sultan of the Moon and Stars (1999), Sisterhood of the Blue Storm (2000) and Empress of the Endless Dream (2001).

Set in an imaginary eighteenth-century world, this darkly comic fantasy epic has been variously described as “grotesque,” “marvellously camp,” “a sprawling baroque tapestry,” and “a feverish cross between Georgette Heyer and Mervyn Peake.”Tom has also written the gothic mystery Shadow Black and the science fiction novel The Translation of Bastian Test.

Please visit the books section for more information on each of these novels.

Other publications include the short stories ‘The Indigenes’ and ‘The Volvax Immersion’ in Interzone (136 and 143).

There is more information in the section on Tom’s writing.