Bibliography
Bibliography
Stories:
Several of my stories fall into series. Following each of the story details, below, is a letter denoting the relevant series.
S = Salvageman Ed stories, about Captain Ed of the salvage ship A Long Way From Home, and his crew of Karrie, an engineer, and Ella, an AI pilot.
K = The Kéthani stories. These stories are set in the near future, in the region where I lived in West Yorkshire. The Kéthani are a race of aliens, never seen in the stories themselves, who have bestowed the dubious gift of immortality upon the human race. The stories deal with the consequences of the gift. They are low-tech, small-scale, and quiet: they’re more about the featured characters and how they deal with the ‘gift’ than about the aliens and the science of immortality. In 2007 I rewrote the stories and added linking material to form the novel Kéthani.
E = Engineman stories. These feature men and women who, by power of their minds alone, push vast starships through the gulfs of space, and in so doing attain a kind of nirvana. The novel Engineman is at the core of this future history.
T = The Fall of Tartarus: stories set on the world of Tartarus, whose sun is going nova. These stories are set in the decades leading up to the blow-out and feature the people who chose to leave the planet, remain, or return. They were collected in The Fall of Tartarus, 2005.
SO = Stories set in Sapphire Oasis, an artist’s colony in the Sahara desert. These stories also fall into the Telemass future history.
TM = Telemass stories. These are set in the future, after the time of the Enginemen, when telemass devices have superseded starships.
BH = Ben Henderson stories, featuring the retired gem-cutter, Henderson, and his life in the backwater resort of Magenta Bay, Altair III. These stories also fall into the Telemass future history.
Stories marked (N) are novellas over fifteen thousand words.
Stories marked * are for children.
2009
97) “Salvage Rites” We Think, Therefore We Are (January) (S)
2008
96) “Ghostwriting” Cemetery Dance 59 (Winter)
95) “People of Planet Earth” The Hub 58
94) “State Secret” Postscripts 15, (Summer)
93) “Matthew’s Passion” Kéthani (with Tony Ballantyne) (May) (K)
92) “Sunworld” The Solaris Book of New SF 2 (April)
91) “Uncertain World” Fantasy Adventures 13 (February)
90) “Op Day” Fantasy Adventures 13 (February)
89) “The Sin of Edward Veron” Fantasy Adventures 13 (February) (SO)
2007
88) “Three’s A Crowd” Thrilling Wonder Stories 1 (Summer) (S)
87) “New York Games” The Hub 3 (April)
86) “In Transit” (with Keith Brooke) in the collection Parallax View (March) (N)
85) “The Farewell Party” The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (February) (K)
2006
84) “The Memory of Joy” Choices (December)
83) “The Touch of Angels” in the collection Threshold Shift (September) (K)
82) “The Tapestry of Time” Fantasy Adventures 12 (June)
81) “Terrortory” Fusing Horizons 5 (June)
80) “The Man Who Never Read Novels” Cemetery Dance 54 (January)
2005
79) “Life Beyond…” Postscripts 4 (Summer)
78) “Six Weeks in a Balloon” The New Jules Verne Adventures (March)
77) “A Heritage of Stars” Constellations (January) (K)
2004
76) “Dead Star” Fantasy Adventures 11 (October)
75) “PharmOlympics 2032″ ‘9′ 213 (August)
74) “A Choice of Eternities” Postscripts 1 (Spring) (K)
2003
73) “The Frozen Woman” Interzone 190 (July/Aug)
72) “Li Ketsuwan” The Third Alternative 34 (March)
71) “The Wisdom of the Dead” Interzone 186 (February) (K)
2002
70) “Thursday’s Child” Spectrum SF 9 (October) (K)
69) “The Blue Portal” Interzone 180 & 181 (June/July) (N)
68) “Myths of the Martian Future” Mars Probes (June)
67) “The Trees of Terpsichore Three” (with Michael Coney) Spectrum SF 8 (April)
66) “Ulla, Ulla” The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (March)
2001
65) “The Kéthani Inheritance” Spectrum SF 7 (November) (K)
64) “The Frankenberg Process” Interzone 171 (September)
63) “Instructions for Surviving the Destruction…” Spectrum SF 6 (July)
62) “Ascent of Man” Interzone 167 (May)
61) “The Angels of Life and Death” Spectrum SF 5 (April)
60) “The Children of Winter” Interzone 163 (January)
2000
59) “The Ultimate Sacrifice” Spectrum SF 4 (November) (T)
58) “Beauregard” Dark Terrors 5 (October)
57) “The Miracle at Kallithéa” Spectrum SF 3 (August)
56) “The Crimes of Domini Duvall” SF Age (May) (SO&TM)
55) “Green-Eyed Monster” (with Stephen Baxter) Spectrum SF 2 (April)
54) “Destiny on Tartarus” Spectrum SF 2 (April) (T) (N)
53) “Mind’s Eye” (with Keith Brooke) Spectrum SF 1 (February)
52) “The Denebian Cycle” (with Keith Brooke) Interzone 152 (February) (N)
51) “The Kings of Eternity” SF Age (January)
1999
50) “The People of the Nova” Interzone 150 (December) (T)
49) “Kathmandu Blues” The Edge 2 (Autumn)
48) “Steps Along the Way” Moon Shots (July)
47) “The Flight of the Oh Carrollian” (with Keith Brooke) Interzone 145 (July)
46) “Hunting the Slarque” Interzone 141 (March) (T) (N)
45) “Dark Calvary” SF Age (January) (T)
1998
44) “Venus Macabre” Aboriginal SF (Winter)
43) “Onward Station” Interzone 135 (Sept) (K)
42) “Deep Future” SF Age (July)
41) “Vulpheous” Interzone 129 (March) (T)
1997
40) “Under Antares” (with Keith Brooke) Interzone 126 (December)
39) “The Amazing Mr Endicott” Dare You (Nov)*
38) “When the VR-Bookatron Went Wrong” Out of this World (Nov)*
37) “The Vanishing of the Atkinsons” The New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (Nov)
36) “Skyball” The Edge 5 (Aug/Sept)
35) “The Eschatarium at Lyssia” Interzone 122 (Aug) (T)
34) “Ferryman” New Words (Summer) (K)
33) “Eye of the Beholder” Interzone 119 (May)
32) “A World of Difference” Aliens to Earth (March)*
1996
31) “Sugar and Spice (with Keith Brooke) Interzone 112 (October)
30) “Status Extinct” Space Stories (September)*
29) “Appassionata” (with Keith Brooke) Interzone 109 (July)
28) “The Spacetime Pit” (with Stephen Baxter) Interzone 107 (May)
27) “The Thallian Intervention” The Edge (February)
1995
26) “Blue Shifting” in the collection Blue Shifting (Dec) (N)
25) “Song of Summer” in the collection Blue Shifting (Dec) (TM)
24) “Sunfly” (with Stephen Baxter) Interzone 100 (October)
23) “A Prayer for the Dead” Interzone 96 (June) (T)
1994
22) “Downtime in the MKCR” Interzone 83 (May)
1993
21) “Paramathea” Interzone 73 (June)
1992
20) “Epsilon Dreams” Interzone 59 (May) (BH&TM)
19) “Crystals” New Moon 2 (January)
1991
18) “Elegy Perpetuum” Interzone 52 (October) (E&SO)
17) “The Nilakantha Scream” Interzone 48 (June)
16) “The Phoenix Experiment” The Lyre 1 (Spring/Summer) (E)
15) “Star of Epsilon” REM 1 (Spring/Summer) (E)
14) “Piloting” Interzone 44 (Feb) (TM)
1990
13) “The Pharagean Effect” Interzone 41 (Nov) (BH&TM)
12) “The Inheritors of Earth” in the collection The Time-Lapsed Man… (Aug) (N)
11) “Pithecanthropus Blues” in the collection The Time-Lapsed Man… (Aug) (E)
10) “The Death of Cassandra Quebec” Zenith II (Summer) (TM&SO)
9) “The Meaning of Life” Drabble II (April)
1989
“The Disciples of Apollo” Other Edens III
7) “The Art of Acceptance” Strange Plasma 1 (E)
6) “Star Crystals and Karmel” Interzone 31 (Sept/Oct) (BH&TM)
1988
5) “Big Trouble Upstairs” Interzone 26 (Nov/Dec) (E)
4) “The Karma-Kid Transcends” Opus 5 (Spring)
3) “The Time-Lapsed Man” Interzone 24 (Summer) (E)
1987
2) “The Girl Who Died for Art and Lived” Interzone 22 (Winter) (E)
1) “Krash-Bangg Joe and the Pineal-Zen Equation” Interzone 21 (Autumn) (E)
Novels:
Xenopath – Solaris, 2009
Necropath – Solaris, 2008
Kéthani – Solaris, 2008
Helix – Solaris, 2007
New York Dreams – Gollancz, 2004
New York Blues – Gollancz, 2002
New York Nights – Gollancz, 2000
Penumbra – Orion, 1999
Engineman – Pan Macmillan, 1994
Meridian Days – Pan Macmillan, 1992
Novellas:
Gilbert and Edgar on Mars – PS Publishing, 2009
Starship Fall – NewCon Press, 2009
Revenge – Barrington Stoke, 2007
Starship Summer – PS Publishing, 2007
The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne – PS Publishing, 2005
Approaching Omega – Telos Publications, 2005
A Writer’s Life – PS Publishing, 2001
Collections:
Threshold Shift – Golden Gryphon, 2006
The Fall of Tartarus – Gollancz, 2005
Deep Future – Cosmos Books, 2001
Parallax View (with Keith Brooke) – Sarob Press, 2000
Blue Shifting – Pan Macmillan, 1995
The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories – Pan Macmillan, 1990
Books for children:
Guilty – Barrington Stoke, 2009
An Alien Ate Me for Breakfast – Barrington Stoke, 2007
Crazy Love – Barrington Stoke, 2006
British Front – Barrington Stoke, 2005
Space Ace – Barrington Stoke, 2005
Firebug – Barrington Stoke, 2003
Twocking – Barrington Stoke, 2002
The Web: Walkabout – Orion Dolphin, 1999
The Web: Untouchable – Orion Dolphin, 1997
Plays:
George and the Red Giant (adapted from Stephen Baxter’s short story, “George and the
Comet”) – Seeing Ear Theater, 2000
Noel’s Ark (a radio play for children) – Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1982
As Editor:
The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (with Mike Ashley) – Constable-Robinson, 2005