Background
Arwen Elys Dayton was born on January 3, 1974, in California, United States. Dayton was named Arwen after an elf in The Lord of the Rings.
2008
Virginia, United States
Arwen Dayton is an American author of science fiction.
2003
2007
Virginia, United States
Arwen Dayton is giving an autograph to her readers.
2019
2007
Virginia, United States
Arwen Dayton is giving an autograph to her readers.
Virginia, United States
Dayton is married to a tech entrepreneur, Sky Dayton.
(In an empire caught between the myth of the past and its ...)
In an empire caught between the myth of the past and its army's aggressive expansion, four people challenge fate. Gery, a Fleet deserter, has found sanctuary in the great marble rose of Shall, a floating city that hangs at the edge of the perceived universe. After he unwillingly receives a vision of Shall's destruction, he returns to the harsh realities of the universe to fight his way back to a world he had hoped to forget. With Gery is Athane, a delicate woman with hidden talents, who must learn to fight, kill and ultimately lead as she accompanies Gery into the dangers that lie ahead. Baisym, a desert nomad, wakes feeling he must find a way to save his family and his tribe. His search takes him far from his world where he must stave off a threat greater than any he could imagine. A fighter obsessed with the future, Bellein holds herself in anonymity, biding her time until she is ready to strike. With Deith, her loyal friend and sometime lover, she must make her way to the home of her childhood, where she will find her end. Or her beginning. Their lives intertwine, leading them into the heart of what has been and what is yet to be: The Sovereign's Hold.
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereigns-Hold-Arwen-Elys-Dayton/dp/1883573165/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than ...)
The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than light. It carried a group of scientists to a small, distant planet - a primitive place called Earth. It’s mission was peaceful observation. But when the ship was destroyed, the Kinley crew found themselves stranded in ancient Egypt, participants in the pageant of life in the time of the Pharaohs. Five thousand years later, the Kinley homeworld hovers on the brink of extinction. An enemy that nearly obliterated their race has risen again - now with the ability to destroy them for good. A lone Kinley soldier named Pruit is sent on a desperate mission: to follow the ancient beacon back to Earth and recover the secrets to faster than light travel.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612182178/?tag=2022091-20
2000
https://www.amazon.com/Seeker-Arwen-Elys-Dayton/dp/0385744080/?tag=2022091-20
2015
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385744102/?tag=2022091-20
2016
https://www.amazon.com/Disruptor-Seeker-Arwen-Elys-Dayton/dp/0385744153/?tag=2022091-20
2017
https://www.amazon.com/Stronger-Faster-Beautiful-Arwen-Dayton/dp/0525580980/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Arwen Elys Dayton was born on January 3, 1974, in California, United States. Dayton was named Arwen after an elf in The Lord of the Rings.
Arwen graduated from high school at 16. At 18 she returned to the United States to attend Stanford University, but she didn't attend it.
Arwen Dayton began writing around the age of 7 or 8 when a teacher asked her to write a one-page story. In Arwen’s childhood she enjoyed reading adventure and fantasy stories and at the age of 8 wrote a story about a prince arriving on a spaceship from another planet to rescue his little sister. Some of those ideas were later depicted in her novel Ressurection. At the age of 12, Arwen Dayton read the book The King Must Die, by Mary Renault, which had a major impact on the budding writer.
After graduating from high school at 16, Dayton worked as a tutor for a year in Europe. At 18, she returned to the United States to attend Stanford University, but she didn’t, instead of it she began her career as a teenage staff writer at a foundation that produced Peabody Award-winning educational shows for Public Broadcasting Service.
Dayton began working on her first novel, Sovereign's Hold. It was published by Windstorm in 2000. Dayton became well-known for her novel Resurrection, set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt, fusing ancient Egyptian history and archaeology with the possibility of advanced civilizations in a nearby galaxy. The novel was published by Amazon's 47 North, and became a Kindle best-seller after hitting #2 on the overall charts.
In February 2015, Dayton released the novel Seeker, a fantasy novel set in a shadowy dystopian future. Dayton extensively researched the novel in Scotland, where the first third of the story is set. Publishers Weekly called Seeker a "powerful beginning to a complex family saga" though the reviewer for The Guardian was less enthusiastic, believing that the second half of the novel was stronger. Teen Vogue included the novel in their 2015 "13 YA Debuts to Have on Your Radar This Year" list. As early as 2013 it was announced that Columbia Pictures had purchased the rights to the novel and that Mark Gordon was attached to produce a film adaptation.
In November 2015, Dayton released an e-Novella entitled The Young Dread, revolving around a character who was a child in the 1400s but is still alive today, and aged only into a teen. In 2016, Penguin Random House published Traveler, the sequel to Seeker. The third book in the series, Disruptor, was published in 2017. Teen Reads notes that Disruptor is written from different perspectives and even reveal the thoughts of secondary characters such as Maud, Dex, and Nott. In 2017, Dayton has invested in startups such as digital data studio Fresno with her husband Sky Dayton.
In December 2018, Dayton released Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful, which explores the ethical question of how far humans will go in their pursuit of physical perfection. Her interest in genetic engineering began in 2009 when she read an article in The New Yorker about synthetic biology and the scientists who were fusing together body parts to create new life.
The 2012 novel Resurrection was an Amazon.com Kindle bestseller, reaching #2 on national sales charts. The rights to Arwen Elys's 2015 novel Seeker were purchased by Columbia Pictures in 2013. Tom Shippey of the Wall Street Journal cited Arwen Dayton's book, Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful, as one of the best science fiction novels of 2018, while Constance Grady of Vox named it one of the 16 best books of 2018. Dayton’s brilliant collection of stories is best described as a scientific Twilight Zone.
(In an empire caught between the myth of the past and its ...)
2000(The Kinley built a ship capable of traveling faster than ...)
2000Arwen Dayton is very interested in improving people’s lives, but she knows, that not everyone will share her opinion. Some people will behave rationally and ethically, but people need to figure out how to navigate what happens when people are not rational and ethical.
Arwen Elys spends months doing research for her stories. Her explorations have taken her around the world to places like the Great Pyramid (which she explored by flashlight when researching Resurrection), Hong Kong and its many islands, many ruined castles in Scotland, and the cold cities around the Baltic Sea. She enjoys creating complete worlds inhabited by characters who charm, frustrate or inspire. Arwen Elys is an optimistic type of person.
Arwen has been variously described as "brilliant," "unconventional," and "kind of a loser but nice-looking," and can frequently be found in her home office looking out the window at the ocean and listening to loud music.
Dayton is married to a tech entrepreneur Sky Dayton. They live with their three children on the West Coast of the United States.
