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.”
I’m very pleased to be able to announce the two winners of the King’s College London ‘Mirror Machine’ writing challenge.
Congratulations to all those who took part and submitted such wonderful thought provoking stories; the winning stories are now available to read here.
You can also hear them being read, alongside a keynote on Digital Twins and a panel of: experts; the winners; and those of us who judged the entries. [Book via eventbrite; location is King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS]