Savile was a runner-up for the British Fantasy Award in 2000, short listed for the inaugural Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel, and was a Writers of the Future winner in 2002. With his novel Shadow of the Jaguar, Savile won the Best Young Adult Original Novel for the 2009 Scribe Awards presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.

He has edited and co-edited numerous anthologies, including the 2006 science fiction and fantasy anthology Elemental, a benefit anthology for children who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that includes work by Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon (writing as Kinley MacGregor), Stel Pavlou, Michael Marshall Smith, Sean Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and others.

Savile also writes and edits Doctor Who stories for Big Finish with his work featuring in The Centenarian, Snapshots, Defining Patterns, The Ghosts of Christmas and The Quality of Leadership anthologies in the Short Trips series. He also edited the anthology Destination Prague, the 20th volume in that series. To date Savile has written two Sláine novels for Black Flame, Slaine the Exile and Slaine the Defiler, and wrote the first novel tied in to the universe of the British television show Primeval, for Titan Books.

Savile supports, London-based football club, Tottenham Hotspur.

Novels

• The Secret Life of Colors (2000)
• Laughing Boy's Shadow (2003 and 2007)
• London Macabre (forthcoming 2010)
• Silver (AKA 'Silver: an Ogmios Adventure')
• Gold (AKA 'Gold: an Ogmios Adventure')' (forthcoming 2011)

The Lay of Sláine Mac Roth

Novels featuring the Celtic warrior known as Sláine Mac Roth:

1. Sláine the Exile (2006)
2. Sláine the Defiler (2007)

Primeval related

Primeval TV series related novels:

• Shadow of the Jaguar (2008)

Stargate SG-1 related

Stargate literature for the show Stargate SG-1 TV series related novels:

• Stargate SG-1: The Power Behind the Throne (forthcoming, May 2010)

Warhammer related

Books based in the Warhammer Fantasy mythos:

• Curse of the Necrarch (2008)

Warhammer Von Carstein Trilogy

1. Inheritance (2006)
2. Dominion (2006)
3. Retribution (2007)
4. Vampire Wars (2008), omnibus anthology of the trilogy

Torchwood related

Stories related to the Torchwood TV series:

• Hidden (2008) (audiobook original)
• Black Water appeared in the Torchwood Yearbook (2008)
• 'Gordian' parts I & II appeared in the Torchwood Magazine (2009)

Novellas

• Icarus Descending (2000)
• Houdini's Last Illusion (2004)
• Temple: Incarnations (2007)
• The Hollow Earth (2007) (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
• Monster Town/The Butcher of Box Hill - an Ace Double-style front-to-back novella co-written with Brian M. Logan under the pseudonym "Logan Savile" (Bad Moon Books, 2010)

Short stories

Collections

• Similar Monsters (2001)
• Angel Road (2004)
• The Odalisque and Other Strange Stories (2010)

Doctor Who related

Doctor Who short stories written by Steven Savile:

• "Falling From Xi'an" - appeared in the anthology The Centenarian
• "The Sorrows of Vienna" - appeared in the anthology Snapshots
• "Loose Change" - appeared in the anthology Defining Patterns
• "The Stars Our Contamination" - appeared in the anthology The Ghosts of Christmas
• "Peaceable Kingdom" - appeared in the anthology The Quality of Leadership

Uncollected Short stories

• "Dear Prudence" - appeared in the anthology Blood Lite
• "Mens Rea" - appeared in the anthology Aegri Somnia
• "Ghosts of Love" - first appeared in the anthology Touched By Wonder (A Thera Story) - reprinted in Worlds of Their Own, edited by James Lowder
• "Night of Falling Stars" - appeared in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (A Thera Story)
• "The Song Her Heart Sang" - appeared in the anthology The Solaris Book of New Fantasy (A Thera Story)
• "Idiot Hearts" - appeared in the anthology Poe's Progeny
• "A Madness of Ravens" - appeared in the anthology Daikaiju!3 (A Greyfriar's Gentleman's Club Story)
• "Lies of the Flesh" - appeared in the anthology Invasion!, a Warhammer Fantasy anthology
• "Death's Cold Kiss" - appeared in the anthology The Cold Hand of Betrayal
• "The Angel With The Sad Eyes" - appeared in the anthology Eulogies
• "Absence of Divinity" - appeared in the anthology Vivisections
• "Memories in Glass" - appeared in the anthology The Asylum

Graphic novels

• The Fragrance of You (2005)

Non-fiction

• Fantastic TV: 50 Years of Cult Fantasy and Science Fiction (2010) (non-fiction: essays on contemporary genre television)

As editor

• Redbrick Eden: Scaremongers 2 (1999)
• Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2006) (co-edited with Alethea Kontis)
• Black Gondolier and Other Stories (2003) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part one (co-edited with John Pelan)
• Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions (2004) The Collected Horror Stories of Fritz Leiber part two (co-edited with John Pelan)
• Destination Prague (2007) Doctor Who Short Trips Volume 20