Earth and other unlikely worlds

    Very pleased to announce that my climate-change novella 'Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene' , first published in ...

Part of writing a novel -- one of the most important parts of writing a novel -- is cutting out extraneous material. Sentences, paragraphs a...

What did I do last year? Amongst other things, published two novellas. 'Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene', appeared ...

Over at that very fine SF magazine Clarkesworld, I do my best to answer some interesting questions about Beyond the Burn Line and more. Lin...

The philosopher Timothy Horton described global heating, climate change species loss and all the other upheavals of the Anthropocene, as hyp...

Up on Interzone Digital, Simon Morden asks me some very good questions about Beyond the Burn Line, what's cool in science, the longevit...

  Once upon a time (it was in the last century), I was a scientist. My field of research was symbiosis, using green hydra as a research mod...

Beyond the Burn Line is, in part, a kind of First Contact story that's set in the aftermath of the Anthropocene and employs tropes from...

Where do writers get their ideas? Anywhere and everywhere they can. In the case of Beyond the Burn Line , it began with something so slight ...

 

The two central characters in Ned Beauman's dark comedy are, broadly, personifications of the commonest reactions to the great thinning ...

  Another positive review of Beyond the Burn Line (have I mentioned that it will be published on the 22nd of this month?) in the Guardian . ...

  My story 'Gene Wars' ('Geenisõjad') as been translated into Estonian for Reaktor magazine's special biopunk edition . ...

 It's two weeks before publication of Beyond the Burn Line (you can, if you wish, pre-order), and the first review has appeared. In The...

 

 'Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I.' The Fly (dir David Cronenberg). The first novel by poet J.O. Morgan, Pup...

 ... on page 63 of the first draft of a Quiet War novella. Which was supposed to be a short story but grew, as they say, in the telling. I&...

    Last week NASA released the first images acquired by its new James Webb Space Telescope, including this infra-red image of the galaxy cl...

Cover for my post-anthropocene First Contact novel, out in the UK in September. Credit to the designer, Tomás Almeida. Hope you like it!