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I am a Civil Engineer by profession, and have written since 1980, but seriously only since 2013. My debut novel The Mandroid Murders published in 2022, its sequel The Carborundum Conundrum in 2023, and my latest, The Rigel Redemption, in June 2024. My stories feature in Space Wizard Science Fantasy’s four Worlds Apart anthologies, and the Gallus anthology from the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. My story The NEU Oblivion was long-listed for the 2019 James White Award. In addition to the GSFWC, I belong to Reading Excuses, the British Fantasy Society, and the British Science Fiction Association. ...more

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