Worldstorm is a big fantasy novel, something I could never have envisaged myself writing, but then never say never when it comes to envisaging your own future. The setting is a world much like ours was about two centuries ago but with one crucial difference: everyone in it is born with some form of super power, latent till the onset of puberty. Read the rest of this entry »
The idea for Gig came to me, as ideas sometimes do, while I was out on a run. Read the rest of this entry »
My second book for Barrington Stoke rewrites the short story which first appeared in the Destination: Unknown anthology (see the ‘short stories’ page for details). Read the rest of this entry »
The book is set in a near-future England which has been ostracised by the rest of the world following widespread civil disorder and the collapse of government. People are surviving, despite the frequent missile attacks launched by the so-called International Community which are intended to improve the situation but only make it worse. A semblance of societal order remains, not least in one small southern town called Downbourne, where the book’s hero, Fen Morris, a schoolteacher, lives with his wife Moira. Read the rest of this entry »
My first published short story, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’, came second in a competition held by the late FEAR magazine. The prize was a signed, slip-cased, illustrated, limited-edition copy of Douglas E. Winter’s horror anthology Prime Evil. Read the rest of this entry »
Wings is an adaptation of a story which appears in the aforementioned Imagined Slights, rewritten for what are known as “reluctant readers”, which means readers in their early teens with a lower-than-average reading age. Read the rest of this entry »
An alien race who have chosen Earth as a tourist destination, the Foreigners are tall, golden-robed, elegant and unknowable. Their arrival has brought peace and stability to the planet, and no one wants to see this peace and stability maintained more than Jack Parry, a captain with the Foreign Policy Police. Read the rest of this entry »
The Hand That Feeds came about when Pete (Crowther) asked me if I wanted to revive the old collaborative team and write a story with him for a White Wolf anthology based on one of that company’s magic games. Read the rest of this entry »
William Ian North is an absurdly successful moneymaker. His nigh-unimaginable wealth gives him the ability to found and topple governments, ruin nations, even start wars. But down in the cellar of his mansion lies the secret of his success and it’s a close-to-home secret in more ways that one. It’s also a surprisingly nasty secret, and nastily surprising. Read the rest of this entry »
Collected with five other stories (by Maggie Furey, Stephen Baxter, Ken MacLeod, Pat Cadigan and Eric Brown) set in the same universe, in Web 2028. Read the rest of this entry »