Christopher Rowley (born 1948) is an American writer of both science fiction and fantasy.Rowley was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts to an American mother and an English father. Educated for the most part at Brentwood School, Essex, England, he became a London-based journalist in the 1970s. In 1977 he moved to New York City, and he currently lives in upstate New York's Hudson Valley.Rowley's first science fiction novel was The War for Eternity.