Earth and other unlikely worlds

    (For several years now I've been walking about on Hampstead Heath as early as I can every Sunday morning, and posting on social medi...

 One thing’s certain about the near future: as in the unfolding present, everywhere on the planet will continue to be affected caused by glo...

Stone remembered streets empty of traffic except for the armoured limos of bosses and apparatus men, and the personnel carriers and light t...

Right now ebook editions of my recent novels are presently on offer at the low, low price of just £2.99 -- or $2.99 in the US. The Secret o...

    Loss Protocol continues to make its way into the world. It now has a finished cover, and a page on the publisher's online shop. Co...

Edit of Loss Protocol finished and dispatched by zipwire.  Still don't know what kind of beast it is. It's set in the near future ...

  Development There’s a house I especially like On one of my London walks. Small and flatroofed, Leaning against its larger neighbou...

Spotted in a charity shop: a copy of the UK hardback of Lloyd Biggle Jr's Watchers of the Dark (1966). Bought it on a whim. I remembere...

Reminder: I had two novellas published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine last year, and for reasons to do with award nominations, bot...

When I first started using the internet, back in the early 1990s, websites were so new that you could more or less visit them all in a day. ...

 Yesterday, 14 months after its inception, I finished the final draft of a new novel. It's called Loss Protocol . A fantasy novel about ...

    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 ...