Cobley, who is a member of the
Glasgow Science Fiction Writers Circle, said he was influenced by writers such as
Frank Herbert,
David Brin,
Iain Banks,
Ken MacLeod and
Vernor Vinge, but also by music (
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Yes,
Blue Öyster Cult,
Emerson, Lake & Palmer and
Monster Magnet) and TV shows (
Firefly,
Babylon 5, the most recent series of
Battlestar Galactica). Cobley published his first novel,
Shadowkings, in 2001 for Earthlight, an
imprint of
Simon & Schuster. He completed the "Shadowkings" trilogy with
Shadowgod (2003) and
Shadowmasque (2005), which was nominated for the
British Fantasy Society's best novel award. ==Bibliography==