My memoir Self & I has been reviewed widely in the UK. Here is the review in the Times Literary Supplement. Review in The Spectator, Financial Times, The Guardian. You can also listen to me talking to Janice Forsyth about Self & I to Radio Scotland. See also the review below from The Oldie. Where…
An in-depth interview about my novels
In Spring 2018, Self & I: A Memoir of Literary Ambition will be published in the UK by Eye Books.
I was invited by the BSFA to interview Jeff Noon to mark the publication of his new novel A Man of Shadows. I first read Jeff Noon’s Vurt in the 90s and my first published short story ‘Inbetween’ appeared in anthology of rave fiction called Disco Biscuits along with a story by Jeff. Chad Dixon…
My novel The Red Men will be published by Angry Robot in the US this November 2017. It will be the first time that the novel is available in America. Readers will get the chance to read the loose trilogy comprising The Red Men, IF THEN and The Destructives together in one swoop. Because Angry…
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
