David J. Rodger

David J. Rodger (30 August 1970, Newcastle Upon Tyne – 22 November 2015, Bristol) was a British author and game designer best known for his novels set in a near-future world of corporate and political intrigue.

Oakfield, God Seed, Dante’s Fool, Iron Man Project, Iron Man Project, Edge, and Living in Flames, are all near-future supernatural thrillers, while Dog Eat Dog, The Black Lake, and The Social Club, are based in the world of Yellow Dawn, a role-playing game set in the same future world ten years after it has been devastated by a terrible mutagenic virus.

Rodger's novels combined high-tech intrigue and political/corporate machinations with elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, as created by H.P.

In 2000, Rodger's presence on the Internet got him a place in the BBC documentary, Through The Eyes of the Young, directed by Chris Terrill.

[citation needed] Rodger died at his home in Bristol on 22 November 2015, aged 45, after a short illness.