Stories in Honour of Eric Brown The anthology written to honour Eric, edited by Ian Whates, is now available for pre-order at the Newcon Press website. Publication date is set for 24th May 2024, Eric’s birthday. Here’s what the publisher says: Eric Brown was one of the UK’s finest SF authors. His work won him awards, his storytelling won him readers; more than that, though, he was a special person, and that won him many friends. Containing all new stories from some of the UK’s finest genre writers, this volume, released to mark what would have been Eric’s 64th birthday, is dedicated to Er ..read more

From today’s Newcon Press newsletter: To the Stars and Back: Stories in Honour of Eric Brown. An impressive line-up including many of the UK’s top SF authors are writing brand new stories in honour of a great author and friend, whose passing is still keenly felt. The book is due to appear in May, on what would have been Eric’s 64th birthday. Full details to follow. I think this might be the first public announcement of this anthology. More news to follow, but I do know that it will have a fabulous line-up of contributors, and the one piece I’ve read from it so far is a beautiful, and ve ..read more

Twice per year since 1992, Salt Lake County Library staff have cultivated a list of nominees from all book genres for County Library patrons to vote on. We’re delighted to see that Wormhole (co-written by Eric with Keith Brooke) has been shortlisted for the first Readers’ Choice award for 2024. https://www.slcolibrary.org/we-recommend/readers-choice ..read more

“Assets” (written in collaboration with Keith Brooke), originally published in Night, Rain, and Neon, edited by Michael Cobley (2022) has been reprinted as the opening story in Best of British Science Fiction 2022, along with a lovely tribute to Eric from editor Donna Scott ..read more

On behalf of Eric’s family and friends: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/23/eric-brown-science-fiction-author-and-guardian-critic-dies-aged-62 ..read more

My latest novel, Wormhole, written with Keith Brooke, is out now from Angry Robot. “That’s not a cold case. That’s an archaeological dig…” Detective Inspectors Gordon Kemp and Danni Bellini are pulled off their routine cold case investigations and ordered to investigate a murder from 2109. Eighty years ago… Sebastian White, a leading expert in suspension technology, killed by a single stab wound. Three suspects: his deputy, his business partner and his wife. Three perfect alibis. Simple as that? Not quite. Ten years before White’s death, the first Earth-compatible planet was discovered orbiti ..read more

Several of my titles at NewCon Press are now available, for a limited period, at discount prices. Check here for more details: http://www.newconpress.co.uk/info/books.asp?offers=yes ..read more

Click here to read about Kon-Tiki Coda, and the forthcoming Enigma Quartet of novellas, written with Keith Brooke, from PS Publishing… Her I am, on the right, with Keith Brooke, a few years ago at a convention in Harrogate ..read more

Murder Most Vile, the ninth book the the Langham and Dupré series, is out now from Severn House. “It was not I, but rage, did this vile murder; Yet I, and not my rage, must answer it.” – Thomas Heywood. April, 1957. When Donald Langham is approached by a retired businessman to find his artist son, what starts as a simple missing persons case soon turns to murder as a body is discovered in a disused warehouse. While investigating the killing, Langham’s business partner Ralph Ryland must confront his past as a Mosley-ite Blackshirt in the Thirties. In the course of their search for the murderer ..read more

Here’s the cover of the ninth Langham and Dupré mystery, Murder Most Vile, due out next January. On the short story front, out now is the short-short “A Woman and Her Dog” at Horla, edited by Matthew Rees, and “The Curse of Carmody Grange” in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Forthcoming are: “Blindside” in Femme Fatales and Dangerous Women, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; “Acts of Defiance” in Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon, edited by Ian Whates; “Assets” (with Keith Brooke) in Night, Rain & Neon – A New Cyberpunk Anthology, edited by Michael Cobley; “Farewell ..read more