I'm a science fiction writer based in Wales.

A former space scientist, I turned from studying pulsars and binary stars to fiction. I'm now the author of nineteen novels and more than seventy short stories. My work has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Arthur C Clarke and Sturgeon awards, and I have won the Seiun, Sidewise, European Science Fiction Society and Locus awards. My stories have been adapted for stage and television.

Latest Posts

Mid 2020

5 Jul 2020

It hardly needs to be said that this has not been quite the year many of us expected six months ago. I went into own personal lockdown about a week before the government’s announcement, and my wife and I have been isolating as well as we can ever since.
In hindsight, …

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Into 2020

3 Jan 2020

I thought I’d take a few hours to update the site as we go into the New Year. There’s been very little news worth reporting since the last entry: the life of the average writer really isn’t that remarkable for long stretches of time. The excitement of the Netflix episodes …

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