Below is a list of my short stories which you can read
from this web site, download the Microsoft Word 97 version or download a text
file version. All download files have been compressed into ZIP format.
| Short Stories |
| Downtime in the MKCR |
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It was originally entitled "Seven Days in New Crete" - but, rightly, Keith
Brooke, who vets all my work, suggested that I drop the title as it wasn't
really relevant to the story. So it had to go, great title though it was. I
keep meaning to write more stories in this setting, the Milton Keynes Consensus
Reality... maybe one of these days. |
| Ferryman |
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"Ferryman" is the first of a series of stories about how
the human race responds to the gift of immortality from an alien race called
the Kethani. The aliens don't feature at all in the stories, which concentrate
instead on the human characters and their personal dilemmas when faced with the
choice of whether to accept the alien gift. |
| Star of Epsilon |
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"Star of Epsilon" is an Engineman story, one of a number of tales set in
the same future as my novel Engineman. It's about Jodie, who's dying of an
alien disease, and how she goes about raising the money to buy a cure, with the
help of the narrator, Abe... |
| Venus Macabre |
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I haven't re-read it since its publication, but I do
recall that it's a light-hearted tale about murder, mutilation and revenge.
Looking back at the original hand-written ms, I see that the character of
Daniel Carrington was originally a woman, Amanda Carrington - I thing I made
the change to avoid the charge of misogyny |
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| Short Plays |
| Morgan's Organs |
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I wrote Morgan's Organs in the early eighties, in a feeble attempt at
satire. It's a fifteen minute radio play which I never submitted to a radio
station or for publication. It appears here for the first time anywhere, and is
one of my few attempts at humorous writing. |
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| Articles |
| Parallax View |
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A discussion between Keith Brooke and myself, featuring chat about how we
came to collaborate, working methods, and information about our forthcoming
book, Parallax View. |
| The Web book series |
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The idea of the Web was devised and developed by Simon.
He gave each writer a five thousand word Web 'bible', detailing everything
about the future world: politics, religion, medicine, climate, business and
geography, among others. And, of course, much detail about the Web itself. It
even had a glossary of Web-speak, the lingo spoken by the Web-users of the
future. |
| Work In Progress |
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An ongoing department, updated every few months, featuring an overview of
what I've been writing recently, forthcoming publications, and other things in
the pipeline... |
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