Simon Morden





Simon Morden

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Dr. Simon Morden, B.Sc. (Hons., Sheffield) Ph.D (Newcastle) is a bona fide rocket scientist, having degrees in geology and planetary geophysics. Unfortunately, that sort of thing doesn't exactly prepare a person for the big wide world of work: he's been a school caretaker, admin assistant, and PA to a financial advisor. He's now employed as a part-time teaching assistant at a Gateshead primary school, which he combines with his duties as a house-husband, attempting to keep a crumbling pile of Edwardian masonry upright, wrangling his two children and providing warm places to sleep for the family cats.

His not-so-secret identity as journeyman writer started when he sold the short story Bell, Book and Candle to an anthology, and a chaotic mix o...more


Average rating: 3.81 · 700 ratings · 149 reviews · 9 distinct works
Equations of Life (Samuil P...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Theories of Flight (Samuil ...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Degrees of Freedom (Samuil ...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 136 ratings5 editions
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The Lost Art
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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Another War
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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L'arte Perduta
2.0 of 5 stars 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009
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Brilliant Things
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Heart
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Leaps of Faith
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More books by Simon Morden…
Equations of Life Theories of Flight Degrees of Freedom
Samuil Petrovitch (3 books)
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“People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don't need anyone else. We're happy doing what we do and having obligation interferes with that. And sometimes I think we don't even need ourselves. What's most important is to find out whether we're right or not.”
Simon Morden, Equations of Life

“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”
Simon Morden, Theories of Flight

“Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.”
Simon Morden, The Lost Art

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JULY SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two novels move on the run-off poll for our July 2012 SF Book of the Month

 
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