I am so pleased to say that my story – Brain Fruit – will be published by L’il Factory AB later this year.
Unusually for me it’s not near-future, but further future and more strange than my usual. A step out of the comfort zone – and that’s what made it such fun to write, made even more interesting by this new micro-publisher’s unique approach.
You can check out L’il Factory AB and the cover image of Brain Fruit on their website (and also get a sense of what makes them unique).
Great to see the Creative Futures project get a mention in today’s Guardian.
This was a project that I was a part of with the Defence Science and Technology Lab (UK MoD) and Coventry University (Dr Allen Stroud).
Here the extract, but you can read the full article at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/19/ministry-of-defence-enlists-sci-fi-writers-to-prepare-for-dystopian-futures
“Stroud recently took a leading role in Creative Futures, a research partnership involving prominent science fiction writers and MoD experts looking at the challenges the UK will face in the next century. There are plans to produce and sell a volume of stories from that project.”
In the season of retelling fairy tales through pantomime, here’s one told from a different perspective.