monthly: a short SF review in the Saturday Guardian.
March 2009: The Accord (Solaris).
March 2008: quoted in The Telegraph about Scrabulous.
October 2008: short story "Hannah" due in Extraordinary Engines: the definitive steampunk anthology.
2008: short story "The Man Who Built Heaven" due in Postscripts; novelette "Sweats" due in We Think, Therefore We Are; "The Accord" to be reprinted in Gardner Dozois' Year's Best.
September 2007: Nick
Gevers and I interview each other over at Solaris.
Lovely Amazon
blog about infinity plus, and me.
And
another one at Jeff VanderMeer's site.
...and I took part in the Great North Run, the largest
half-marathon in the world.
August 2007: infinity plus: the anthology (co-edited with Nick Gevers, published by Solaris), a mass market omnibus edition of the two IP anthologies previously published in limited edition hardback by PS Publishing.
April 2007: new edition of Parallax View (written with Eric Brown) to be published by Immanion Press. This edition includes a new novella.
February 2007: short story "The Accord"
published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction.
And a great review of "The Accord" at Sci
Fi Weekly.
July 2006: new interview up at Memetherapy.
June 2006: guest at the BSFA's London evening, interviewed by Molly Brown. A very enjoyable evening all round.
May 2006: I'm standing for the Green Party in the local elections.
April 2006: Interviewed on Anna Tambour's blog.
And I'll be at Eastercon.
March 2006: Interview up at SF Site (plus a Genetopian extract).
February 2006: Genetopia
(Pyr, US), a new adult sf novel.
Interviews up at SFF
World, Sci
Fi Wire and Alien
Online. New at infinity plus: Genetopia
(a standalone story which features, somewhat rewritten, in the novel), I'm interviewed
by Kit Reed, and my introduction to
John Christopher's Tripods.
To find out more about the stories and novels mentioned here, see my annotated bibliography (courtesy of infinity plus). Also: I scare children under another name and have sold four novels to Penguin's Puffin imprint.
October 2005: "The Art of Self-Abuse" put online at infinity plus.
March 2005: "Doctor Bull's Intervention"
to be published in The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Stories, edited
by Mike Ashley and Eric Brown (Constable and Robinson, UK; Carroll and Graf,
US).
Guest at Microcon, University of Exeter; and World Book Day at the
Blue Coat School in Oldham with Eric Brown and Tony Ballantyne.
January 2005: "A Different Sky" published in Constellations, edited by Peter Crowther (DAW).
Delayed entry for summer 2004: "Embrace", Nemonymous #4 (anonymous publication, followed by delayed naming of contributors)
July 2003: Infinity Plus two (co-edited with
Nick Gevers; PS Publishing) - a follow-up to, you guessed it, Infinity Plus
one.
"The Art of Self-Abuse" published in Strange Pleasures
2, edited by John Grant and Dave Hutchinson (Cosmos Books).
April 2003: "Professionals" reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops (Robinson, UK; Carroll and Graf, US).
March 2003: short story Skin
republished online at the Storyville anthology.
World Book Day guest at St Helena School, Colchester (as "Nick
Gifford").
February 2003: many thanks to Night Shade Books for providing me with a messageboard.
January 2003: publication by Puffin of the first novel of my children's fiction alter ego.
October 2002: An extract from my novel-in-progress,
Genetopia, published online at extracts.
First US edition of my first novel Keepers of the Peace (Cosmos).
August 2002: Guest of Honour at this year's Unicon.
June 2002: "Welcome to the Green Planet" published in Interzone; translated into Portuguese by Jorge Candeias as "Bem-vindos ao Planeta Verde" for the e-book O Planeta das Traseiras, in August.
March 2002: co-edited an infinity plus edition of Hugo-winning magazine Interzone.
January 2002: "What she wanted", short horror story published in the first trade paperback edition of Redsine, available from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other bookstores.
November 2001: Infinity Plus one, an anthology derived from the infinity plus website, co-edited with Nick Gevers and published by PS Publishing in a high quality signed collectors' edition hardback. Includes stories by Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Mary Gentle, Michael Bishop and others, with an introduction by Peter F Hamilton.
October 2001: "Genetopia", a short story published in Future Orbits, a new professional sf magazine published in a variety of ebook formats.
September 2001: first US edition my third novel, Expatria Incorporated (Cosmos).
August 2001: Head Shots, a collection of short fiction (Cosmos), with an introduction by Eric Brown. "Memesis", short sf story, and "Wooden Boys Don't Bleed", a short dark story written with Lawrence Dyer and DF Lewis (Strange Pleasures, an anthology published by Cosmos and edited by Sean Wallace).
July 2001: "The People of the Sea", alternate history novelette reprinted in the Interzone anthology, Ant-men of Tibet, and other stories (Big Engine).
May 2001: Lord of Stone - the first print edition of the novel first published online; this new edition is a revised version of the online edition.
March 2001: first US edition of the novel Expatria (Cosmos).
December 2000: "Visitors", a weird story written with Lawrence Dyer and DF Lewis (Aphelion).
October 2000: Parallax View, a collection of stories written with Eric Brown, with an introduction by Stephen Baxter and illustrations by Dominic Harman (Sarob Press).
August 2000: "Liberty Spin", short sf
story (Interzone 158).
"Witness", first published in Interzone, featured story in
the Guest Author slot at World's End.
"Head Shots", first published in Odyssey, republished online in the (non)fiction
section at The Ministry
of Whimsy (June 2000).
To find out more about the stories and novels mentioned here, see my annotated bibliography (courtesy of infinity plus).