I am a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Essex. I teach Writing and Understanding Science Fiction to third-year undergraduates and writing the novel for postgraduates on the MA. Studying a Creative Writing degree at Essex. from University of Essex on Vimeo.
Paul Di Filippo has reviewed The Destructives for Asimov’s Science Fiction. It’s a good review, insightful, from a critic who knows his stuff. A nice way to end the year. “What we have here is J. G. Ballard does John Varley, or David Marusek by way of M. John Harrison, with frostings of Philip K.…
Christmas at the University of the Sun
Andy Sawyer has reviewed my two science fiction novels IF THEN and The Destructives for the prestigious Strange Horizons. He writes, “together they make one of the most intriguing and disturbing near-future speculations published for some years.” I responded to this review because it comes from an experienced and well-considered critic. According to his Wikipedia…
Might Be the Most Mind-Boggling SF Novel You’ll Read this Year – Barnes & Noble
The music to write science fiction by
Here is RAID71’s cover for The Destructives. It shows Theodore Drown in his sensesuit, exploring the replica of early twenty first century house that is erected in a cavern beneath the university of the moon. The various obscurities of that sentence will become clear when the novel is published by Angry Robot in the UK…
I wrote a new science fiction short story for Christmas. It’s called Godforsaken and it’s available for free at Barnes & Noble. It takes place in the same world as my science fiction novels.
World War I as science fiction
Giddy with excitement, I can announce that publisher Angry Robot have acquired my next two SF novels: IF THEN, for publication in the UK and US in September 2015, and The Destructives in 2016. The full announcement is on the Angry Robot site. IF THEN is finished and I’m keen to discover what readers make…
