Mark Smith is the author of several fantasy gamebooks, including co-authoring two Fighting Fantasy

Fighting Fantasy

Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player fantasy roleplay gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volumes in the series were published by Puffin in 1982, with the rights to the franchise eventually being purchased by Wizard Books in 2002...

titles (Talisman of Death and Sword of the Samurai), and the series Duelmaster, Falcon and Way of the Tiger

Way of the Tiger

The Way of the Tiger is the name of a series of adventure gamebooks by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson set on the fantasy world of Orb. The reader takes the part of a young ninja, Avenger, on his quest to avenge his foster father and recover the Scrolls of Kettsuin. Later books present fresh...

, all of which he co-authored with Jamie Thomson, whom he met whilst at school in Brighton. He also wrote two of the Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality (gamebooks)

Virtual Reality was the name of a series of six gamebooks released in 1993 and 1994. Four of the books were written by Dave Morris, and two by Mark Smith.-Game system:...

 series. He cites his gaming career as having begun with Original Dungeons and Dragons in 1976.

Background

Smith is of Czech-Hungarian/English descent, his mother was brought as a child from Hungary settling in the UK just before the Second World War. Born in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 Smith was educated in Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...

 and went on to gain an MA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University and spent some time racing in Formula Renault

Formula Renault

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.

Present

Today, Smith remains in southeast England and working in the field of software testing

Software testing

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...

 and quality assurance for NMQA - Software Testing.

List of works

• Fighting Fantasy #11: Talisman of Death
• Fighting Fantasy #20: Sword of the Samurai
• Falcon
  • The Renegade Lord
  • Mechanon
  • The Rack of Baal
  • Lost in Time
  • The Dying Sun
  • At the End of Time
• The Way of the Tiger
  • Avenger!
  • Assassin!
  • Usurper!
  • Overlord!
  • Warbringer!
  • Inferno!
• Duel Master
  • Challenge of the Magi
  • Blood Valley
  • The Shattered Realm
  • Arena of Death
• Virtual Reality #1: Green Blood
• Virtual Reality #3: The Coils of Hate

External links

• http://www.nmqa.com