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Would you like to learn a practical technique for generating sci-fi/futuristic story ideas and developing them into actual stories? It’s something I developed myself over many years of writing fiction set in the future, and I’m excited to have the opportunity to share it with you in a two-hour online class for Arvon. The class […]

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Last week I had the huge pleasure of chatting with Joe Praska and Kalid Hussein on their brilliant Frankenstein’s Podcast. I’m a huge Ray Harryhausen fan, and we talked about one of my favourite Harryhausen movies: Clash of the Titans (the 1981 original, not the 2010 remake abomination). If you’ve not come across Frankenstein’s Podcast […]

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My third short story collection, The Universe Delivers the Enemy You Need, is out now. Here’s a little about it: Plant-based skyscrapers, reluctant sex robots, pencil-wielding black-belts fighting a zombie apocalypse…  Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Adam Marek’s third collection: an almanac of the absurd, a handbook to the hardware problems of being human. […]

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The Royal Academy magazine commissioned me to write a short story for their summer 2019 issue inspired by an artist's work. I chose the amazing Phil Hale.

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I have a new short story on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 14 December 2018 at 3:45pm. It’s called Pale Blue Dots, and it’s about what happens when our personal virtual assistants (like Siri and Alexa) get too clever for our own good.  Thanks so much to Jeremy Osborne at Sweet Talk Productions for commissioning […]

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I’m so excited to be interviewing the amazing David Mitchell at a special WordFactory salon on Weds 12 July 2017. David is the author of seven novels, including Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, and Slade House. He has also c0-translated into English the extraordinary autism memoirs of Naoki Higashida: The Reason I Jump and Fall […]

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I’m teaching a six-part short story writing course with Comma Press at the Freeword Centre in London. In it I’ll cover: • How to come up with ideas, and how to decide whether they’ll work as a short story before you begin writing. • How to write a first draft, with and without a plan. […]

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I have a new short story on BBC Radio 4 on Fri 9 June at 3:45pm. It’s called Companions, and it features a robot and an imaginary grandma. Big thanks to Jeremy Osborne at Sweet Talk Productions for commissioning me, and actor Lee Ingleby, for making it sound so terrific. The story will stay on the […]

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  I hate writing first drafts. The story either comes out too fast in a messy splatter, lacking substance, or every paragraph sits reluctantly in the bowels of my brain and needs coaxing out with a stick. Sure, there are occasional moments where a page will glide out that’ll make me smile and think ‘ahhhh! […]

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There are two brilliant (and free!) exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection in London right now: Electricity: The Spark of Life and Making Nature: How We See Animals exhibition. I spent the afternoon there on Sunday, hoping for inspiration for future fiction projects, and had my Wonder-Button pressed repeatedly. Here are just three of the eye-popping things […]

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