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Science Fiction


Ingredients
Rock Star — a planetless blue giant orbited by hundreds of millions of rocks forming a single vast asteroid field, subtly disobeying human laws of gravity and dynamics. An enigma concealing the greatest threat that humanity has ever encountered.
Old Earth — polluted, damaged, all ice melted, ecosystems slowly dying. Most of its people live in the polar regions, in floating cities, or in undersea domes. Kept alive by external aid, imported down three closely guarded beanstalks.
The Concordat — a loose-knit federation of former Old Earth colony worlds and their own colonies, wealthy beyond measure. Imposed Quarantine on the birth world of humanity 1700 years ago, denying it access to the stars, except for carefully vetted colonists. Its ultimate power is a monopoly on the means of interstellar travel.

Ira da Terra — a person and a liberation movement. Terra-ists will stop at nothing to free Earth from Concordat dominion and repression, and open the path to the Galaxy.

ROCK STAR

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Church of Cthulhu — surviving in the remnants of drowned Manhattan, waiting for their souls to be eaten when the stars are right.
Qish — a lost colony, rediscovered in Living Labyrinth, which has lost most human science but developed tech based on syntei.
Syntei — matter transmitters that grow on trees. Reaching the Concordat, syntelics threaten its very basis ... even as it faces the danger from Rock Star.
Nazg — a system with twenty-three inhabited worlds and innumerable artificial habitats. Home to Salim Sisters, the Concordat's most advanced hi-tech corporation.
Valkyrie — an obsolete Da Silva caltrop, used to train candidates for Galactic citizenship, twice destroyed. Its impossibly resurrected crew must work with the Syntelic League to save the human race from annihilation.

Recipe
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Selections from Nature's long-running SF series 'Futures'. Edited by Henry Gee and Colin Sullivan, available as Kindle eBooks. About 100 stories, about 1000 words each. Long attention span not required.

Volume 1 contains my 'Play it again, Psam', and Volume 2 contains 'The day we made history'.
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BOOKS
  • The Science of Discworld [with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen], Ebury Press, London 1999. [Now in a second edition.]
  • Reinventing the Wall, Novacon 29 Special, BSFG Birmingham 1999 (limited edition of 300).
  • Wheelers [with Jack Cohen], Warner Aspect, new York 2000.
  • Flatterland, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge 2001.
  • The Science of Discworld II: The Globe [with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen], Ebury Press, London 2002.
  • Heaven [with Jack Cohen] Warner Aspect, New York 2004.
  • The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch [with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen], Ebury Press, London 2005.
  • Jack Of All Trades [Kindle eBook]
  • The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day [with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen], Ebury Press, London 2013.
  • The Living Labyrinth [with Tim Poston], ReAnimus Press 2016.
  • Wheelers [second edition, eBook], ReAnimus Press 2016. eBook and paperback also available from amazon.
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SHORT STORIES
  • ...And master of one, Analog 99 #6, June 1979, 113-126.
  • The malodorous plutocrats, Analog 99 #9, Sept. 1979, 87-102.
  • Message from Earth, OMNI, Feb. 1980, 50-52. Reprinted in The Best of OMNI Science Fiction #3, 1982, 50-51.
  • Paradise misplaced, Analog 101 #3, Mar. 1981,12-38.
  • Incredibility gap, Analog 101 #4, Mar. 1981, 42-52.
  • The microbotic revolution, OMNI, Aug. 1981, 3 #11, 62-65, 104-107.
  • Reprinted in The Best of OMNI Science Fiction #6, 1983, 118-123.
  • Deep Joat, Analog 101 #8, July 1981, 88-108.
  • Ashes, OMNI, Dec. 1981, 4 #3, 76-78, 152-156.
  • The digital dictator, Analog 102 #8, Aug. 1982, 84-100.
  • The treacle well, Analog 103 #10, mid-Sept. 1983, 40-58.
  • Missing link, Analog 106 #1, Jan. 1986, 154-174.
  • Billy the Kid, Analog 107 #1, Jan. 1987, 162-175.
  • Displaced person, Analog 107 #5, May 1987, 144-178.
  • Captives of the slavestone, Analog 107 #12, mid-Dec. 1987, 148-178.
  • Curlew's choice, Analog 110 #3, Feb. 1990, 156-175.
  • Wall of death, Analog 110 #11, Oct. 1990, 82-109.
  • Hydra, Analog 113 #3, Feb. 1993, 66-81.
  • The ape that ate the universe, Analog 113 #8/9, Jul. 1993, 100-121.
  • [with Jack Cohen] Code of the skydiver, Interzone 136 (October 1998) 21-26.
  • A bad spell, Novacon 29 Progress Report 3, 1999.
  • [with J Cohen] Monolith (with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke), Nature 408 (2000) (21/28 Dec) 913 [Futures series 1].
  • Play it again, Psam, Nature 433 (2005) (3 Feb) 556. [Start of Futures series 2.]
  • Environmental Friendship Fossle, Analog 126 #7/8, Jul/Aug 2006, 142-159.
  • The day we made history, Nature Physics 3 (2007) 210 [Continuation of Futures series 2 from Nature.]
  • What I Did on my Holidays, Nature 448 (2007) (9 Aug) 726 [Futures series 3].
  • Grandfather paradox, Nature 464 (2010) (29 April) 1398 [Futures series 3].
  • Market forces, Nature 507 (2014) (20 March) 394 [Futures series 3].
  • Uninhabitable zone, Nature 524 (2015) 260 [Futures series 3].
  • The fourth law of humanics, Nature 535 (21 July 2016) 460 [Futures series 3].

RADIO PLAY
  • The microbotic revolution, Czech radio, Prague, 19.30, 28 June 1994.

SF DETECTIVE FICTION
  • Schrödinger's Mousetrap Part 1: the trap is primed, Nature 433 (2005) (20 Jan) 200-201. [Opening of 10-episode round-Robin story to celebrate International year of Physics 2005.]

VIDEOTAPE 
  • The Colours of Infinity, presenter Arthur C. Clarke, New Moon Productions, 1994.

SF-RELATED NONFICTION
  • [with T.Poston] Rubber-sheet physics, Analog, Nov. 1981 101 #12, 48-65.
  • The electronic mathematician, Analog 107 #1 Jan. 1987, 73-89.
  • Shelf life (Philip K. Dick), Times Higher Educational Supplement, February 14 1992, p.21.
  • How to build a universe, Novacon Programme Book 1993, Birmingham SF Group 1993.
  • Fermat's last time trip, Scientific American 269 #5, November 1993, 85-88.
  • The real physics of time travel, Analog 114 (January 1994) 106-130.
  • Wormholes in wonderland, New Scientist 1957/8 (24/31 December 1994) 22-25.
  • Jack Cohen: alien designer, Evolution Progress Report 2, April 1995, 6-7.
  • Why scientists should read SF, Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1999.
  • [with J.Cohen] Where are the dolphins? Nature 409 (2001) 1119-1122. 
  • From Flatland to Flatterland, Spectrum 3 (2002) 6-7.
  • Cosmic holes and superstrings, Prospect 90 (September 2003) 50-53. 
  • The science between Discworld’s science fiction, Words and Pictures, Cumbria Institute of the Arts 2003, 44-49. 
  • Birthdays on Jupiter, Eureka 57 (2005) 10-14. 
  • Fiction science, Warwick: the Magazine 7 (2005) 10-11. 
  • Ride the celestial subway, New Scientist #2544 (25 March 2006) 32-36. 
  • [with J. Cohen and D. Veal] Alien science (interview), Collapse 5 (2009) 225-290. 
  • Blue blue cat, Discworld Convention Programme Book 2012, 15. 
  • Ride the celestial subway, in Nothing (ed. Jeremy Webb), Profile 2013, 142-148. 
  • Aspiring to a higher plane, in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays 2011-2013 (ed. Adam Green), PDR Press, Cambridge 2014, 195-199. 
  • Wandering in the heavens, New Statesman (22 December) 2014.
  • [with Stephen Baxter, Stephen Briggs, Andrew Butler, Neil Gaiman, Edward James, Paul Kidby, Farah Mendlesohn] Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015), Foundation 44.1 120 (2015) 5-10.
  • Monsters, victims, friends: aliens in science fiction writing, in: Aliens (ed. Jim Al-Khalili), Profile, London 2016, 103–113.

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