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John Meaney
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I was born in the 'Irish ghetto' of northwest London, of Irish parents, and grew up in Slough, famous for the Poet Laureate's words (addressed to the Luftwaffe): "Come friendly bombs and drop on Slough/It isn't fit for humans now.". Within a year or two I was reading the 'juveniles' (as publishers used to call them) of Robert A. Heinlein and Andre Norton, two very different writers, dragging apart the boundaries of my worldview in opposite directions. Time is the Simplest Thing. Novel you write.). Pages ...
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John Meaney
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Shop for John's books. Barnes and Noble (US). A million years from now, in an airless hall upon the Moon, decorated with shields and spears, Ulfr, Gavriela, Roger and others awaken in transparent bodies of living crystal, ready for the final battle. But in their normal waking lives, they will remember only fragments of far future meetings. The Times, London. Absorption'. takes us from a thousand years in the past to half a billion years in the future with several stops in between. It's the kind o...Reson...
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John Meaney
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My early short fiction appeared in Interzone magazine, with reprints in various anthologies. Eventually, I made time to write stories only when invited by editors of varying anthologies; more latterly, I've simply had to decline invitations. I still love the short story/novelette/novella form. A Study In Shadow. Published by the Birmingham SF Group as a chapbook for Novacon 41, November 2011. Is set in near-future Singapore, featuring a deadly kind of hi-tech telepathy. Dark matter and distant cosmic...
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John Meaney
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One of the most original voices, and most insightful thinkers, the genre has ever produced. Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning author of. I'm John Meaney, science fiction and fantasy author. I also write near-future thrillers under the pseudonym of Thomas Blackthorne. Welcome to my virtual home! Pull up a chair, and let's catch up on what's happening. The concluding volume of the Ragnarok space opera trilogy, is now available. The Times, London. The nice things people say. A brilliant, inventive writer.
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John Meaney
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THE WHISPER OF DISKS. So this is the city: millennium-old spires encased in clear ice, enwrapped by winter's gloom. There, the Bodleian Library, its elegant domed Radcliffe Camera gleaming beneath a transparent shell; there, the Ashmolean's stately grandeur, white snow banked at the stone columns' feet. The streets form ice-chasms where occasional bug-cars slide through softly falling flakes, navigating the whiteout by radar. I should never have left. Or never returned. You've been here longer than I,.