James Lovegrove is the New York Times best-selling author of The Age of Odin . He was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1998 and for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2004. He also reviews fiction for the Financial Times . He is the author of Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War , Sherlock Holmes: The Stuff of Nightmares , Sherlock Holmes: The Thinking Engine and Sherlock Holmes: The Labyrinth of Death for Titan Books.