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Geoff Nelder

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Geoff Nelder has a wife, two grown-up kids, an increasing number of grandkids, and lives in rural England within an easy cycle ride of the Welsh mountains. He taught Geography and Information Technology for years until writing took over his life. Geoff is a competition short-fiction judge, and a freelance editor.

Publications include several non-fiction books on climate reflecting his other persona as a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; over 50 published short stories in various magazines and anthologies; thriller, humour, science fiction, and fantasy novels.
2005: Humorous thriller Escaping Reality. Republished 2012.
2008: Award-winning science fiction mystery with hot-blooded heroine, Alien Exit, on Kindle
2010: Another thriller re
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Dragut’s New Portrait

Dragut had high intelligence, compassion and a cruel streak.There exists on the web, an image of Admiral Rais Dragut painted shortly before he died in 1565 by shrapnel during the Great Siege of Malta. The painting isn’t in the Public Domain, I can’t find permissions otherwise I would have used it for the cover of Dragut’s Divergence. The Times of Malta used it years ago but without proper accredit

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Published on March 10, 2026 12:13
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ARIA: Left Luggage

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Suppose We (The Flying Croo...

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Xaghra's Revenge

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Aria: Returning Left Luggag...

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The Chaos of Mokii

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Dragut's Divergence

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Escaping Reality

3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions
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KEPLER'S SON

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Exit, Pursued by a Bee

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message 4: by Geoff

Geoff Nelder Verge, the honour is all mine.


message 3: by Verge

Verge Noir Hi Geoff, Thank you for adding me as a friend on G R.


message 2: by Geoff

Geoff Nelder It was a pleasure, Tom, to be in your circle. So many of my own pals are so square ;)

tea and bisucits,

Geoff


message 1: by Tom

Tom Blubaugh Hi Geoff,

Thanks for joining my circle of friends.

Blessings,

Tom


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