Author Archives: Stephen Oram

About Stephen Oram

Stephen Oram writes near-future and speculative fiction. His work has been praised by publications as diverse as The Morning Star and The Financial Times.

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“Let Them Be” is a story I’ve wanted to tell for a while, and now it’s published with thanks to The World of Myth Magazine.

Quite a pertinent place for it to be, given it’s about how we rise above the mundane of an AI future.


“My Vagus Proxy”, which was a top ten winner in the Dubai Future Foundation competition has been selected for the Best of British Science Fiction 2025 (NewCon Press)


The “Creative Futures” anthology (Flame Tree Press) that came from the project with Coventry University and DSTL has been shortlisted for a BSFA Award.

My story “Fake” sits alongside some other great stories.


Our Data, Our Future: episode 5

It’s here – the next episode of Our Data, Our Future, where Robin Riback and I drop our thoughts into a short podcast, aiming to create ripples and waves of further thought.

How data brings us together (spoiler – we’re being positive), posing the question of whether we can shift our interaction with ‘the algorithm’ from passivity to puncturing?

https://nudgethefuture.substack.com/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-244