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Simon Morden

Simon Morden is an English science fiction author, best known for his Philip K. Dick Award–winning Metrozone series of novels set in post-apocalyptic London.

Biography

Morden was educated as a scientist, attaining a BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of Sheffield and his PhD in Geophysics from Newcastle University.

Morden has worked in a variety of roles including a school caretaker, an admin assistant, a personal assistant to a financial advisor and is currently a teaching assistant for a design technology class at a primary school in Gateshead. In terms of his writing career, Morden is the former editor of Focus magazine; he has been on the Arthur C. Clarke Award judging panel; and he's a regular speaker on Christian matters in fiction at the Greenbelt Festival. Morden identifies as a Christian.

Morden first achieved success as a writer when his novel Heart was published by Razorblade Press in 2002.

His writing influences include Charles Stross, Ray Bradbury, Julian May, and Michael Marshall Smith

Bibliography

The Metrozone series

  • Equations of Life (2011, Orbit)
  • Theories of Flight (2011, Orbit)
  • Degrees of Freedom (2011, Orbit)
  • The Curve of the Earth (2013, Orbit)

The Down series

  • Down Station (February 2016)
  • The White City (2016, Gollancz)

The Frank Kittridge series

  • One Way (as S.J. Morden) (April 2018, Orbit)
  • No Way (as S.J. Morden) (February 2019, Orbit)
  • Gallowglass (as S.J. Morden) (December 2020, Gollancz)
  • The Flight Of The Aphrodite (as S.J. Morden) (November 2022, Gollancz)

Stand-alone works

  • Heart (2002, Razorblade)
  • Another War (novella) (2005, Telos)
  • The Lost Art (2007, David Fickling)
  • Arcanum (19 November 2013, Orbit)
  • At The Speed Of Light (January 2017, Newcon Press)
  • Bright Morning Star (2019)
  • The Red Planet - a natural history of Mars (2021 Elliott and Thompson Ltd)

Collections

  • Thy Kingdom Come (Multimedia disc) (2002, Lone Wolf Publications)
  • Thy Kingdom Come (Limited edition hardback) (2013, Jurassic London)
  • Brilliant Things (2004, Subway)

Awards

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