Short Stories
Click here to read a short story of mine on the infinityplus website.
Below are some of my short stories, listed in reverse chronological order, together with the publication in which they first appeared.
The Ugly Truth
Interzone 191
Capel doe Mistletroe begins to suspect that there may be more to the official history of her planet than meets the eye.
There is also more to this story than meets the eye... Keep watching this space.
The Waters of Meribah
Interzone 189
How do you go about imagining other worlds when the Universe has shrunk to only a few light years in diameter?
Teaching the War Robot to Dance
Interzone 178
The title pretty much says it all. This is one of my personal favorites.
Real Man
Interzone 174
In which aliens arrive on Earth to protect young men, and only young men.
Indecisive Weapons
Interzone 172
Why would anybody fire a missile aimed specifically at Marcus Westerby?
Restoring the Balance, 2
Interzone 168
More on MTPH, and the first stirrings of Social Care
Restoring the Balance
Interzone 167
A precursor to Recursion. The first story to feature MTPH
A New Beginning
Interzone 163
One of my favourites. It is the companion story to World's Apart, featured on the infinityplus website.
Single Minded
Interzone 162
An answer to the problem posed by the Sixth VNM
The Blue Magnolia
The Third Alternative 22
A time travel story for people who love great movies. Or maybe not.
Soldier.exe
Interzone 144
The source code for a war robot...
Gorillagram
Interzone 139
My first SF sale. Eric Sims receives an email from a gorilla...
The Sixth VNM
Interzone 138
My first SF story published, though not the my first sale. Clarke’s VNM based survival kit goes badly wrong.