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Simon Morden

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Aka S.J. Morden
Dr. Simon Morden, B.Sc. Ph.D is a bona fide rocket scientist, having degrees in geology and planetary geophysics. Unfortunately, that sort of thing doesn’t exactly prepare a person for the big wide world of work: he’s been a school caretaker, admin assistant, and PA to a financial advisor. He’s now employed as a part-time teaching assistant at a Gateshead primary school, which he combines with his duties as a house-husband, attempting to keep a crumbling pile of Edwardian masonry upright, wrangling his two children and providing warm places to sleep for the family cats.

His not-so-secret identity as journeyman writer started when he sold the short story Bell, Book and Candle to an anthology, and a chaotic mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror followed. Heart came out to critical acclaim, and Another War was shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award, but with The Lost Art, things suddenly got serious. Contracts. Agents. Deadlines. Responsibility. Scary stuff. The Lost Art was subsequently a finalist for the Catalyst Award for best teen fiction.

As well as a writer, he’s been the editor of the British Science Fiction Association's writers’ magazine Focus, a judge for the Arthur C Clarke awards, and is a regular speaker at the Greenbelt Arts Festival on matters of faith and fiction. In 2009, he was in the winning team for the Rolls Royce Science Prize.

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Simon Morden

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Books from Simon Morden

Equations of Life

Theories of Flight

The Curve of the Earth

Down Station

Arcanum

Bright Morning Star

The White City

The Petrovitch Trilogy

The Lowest Heaven

Thy Kingdom Come

Leaps of Faith

Albedo One #44

Story Behind the Book : Volume 5 (Essays on Writing and Editing Fiction)

Brilliant Things

Heart

Macsen Against the Jugger (NewCon Press Novellas Set 5 Book 4)

Improbable Botany

The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars

Another War

Noir