Incoming giant Achoo

Pollen! Not the annoying substance that will soon be making me cry, but the novel by Jeff Noon. It’s set in the Vurt universe, it’s brilliant, it’s being reissued by Angry Robot in December 2025 for its thirtieth anniversary, and this new edition will contain a foreword by me, and an afterword by Jeff Noon.

I had the best time reading this novel and getting to write about it, and hopefully I’ll infect people with my enthusiasm for Noon’s wild and spectacular vision of future Manchester with lots of zombies, taxis, and sneezing.

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Before we get to December, there’s a whole floral spring to gambol through:

A new SF/horror short story of mine will be published in issue 44 of Three-Lobed Burning Eye on March 18. This will feature six new stories by great writers, as part of their recent successful fundraising (hurray!) and I’ll put up a link soon.

City of All Seasons in April! It recently had a starred review from Library Journal. Both Ollie and I are keen to see it out in the world. Exciting.

The Creator, my fun 1950s horror film homage mutation novella, follows soon after from NewCon Press. I should be able to put up a cover and some further details shortly.

And Calque Press will publish a collection of my Interzone columns about SF ideas of time, called Glass Case Futures! That’ll be in May.

Busy. Primed to explode. Achoo. Hope you’re seeing signs of spring.