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Wikipedia / Geoff Nelder

Geoff Nelder is a British freelance editor and author. He has written both fiction and non-fiction, and his research in the field of air pollution and climate won him a fellowship with the Royal Meteorological Society. Nelder's fictional work falls in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, and he is known for his sci-fi series ARIA, which won him a Preditors & Editors Award for best science fiction novel. Nelder also published the sci-fi magazine Escape Velocity, which launched in 2009. Prior to moving to writing as his primary occupation, Nelder has worked as a teacher at Queens Park High School for 26 years.

In 1975 Nelder became a life member of the British Vegan Society. In 2009 Nelder became a publisher for BeWrite Books, an independent publisher.

Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Master of Science (Sheffield), Bachelor of Education

  • Preditors & Editors Award for best science fiction novel (ARIA: Left Luggage) (2013, won)

Bibliography

ARIA

  • Left Luggage (2012, LL-Publications, )

  • Returning Left Luggage (2013, LL-Publications, )

  • Abandoned Luggage (TBA)

Fiction

  • Escaping Reality (2005, Brambling Books, )

  • Dimensions, a sci-fi anthology with Robert Blevins (2006, Adventure Books of Seattle)

  • Exit, Pursued by a Bee (2008, Double Dragon Publishing, ) now published in ebook only as Alien Exit

  • Hot Air (2011, Adventure Books of Seattle)

  • Escape Velocity - The Anthology, anthology with Robert Blevins (2011, Adventure Books of Seattle)

  • ARIA Trilogy - Left Luggage; Returning Left Luggage; Abandoned Left Luggage (2012 - 2015, LL-Publishing)

  • The Chaos of Mokii (2016, Solstice Publishing)

  • Xaghra's Revenge (2018, Solstice Publishing) revised as Vengeance Island

  • Incremental a collection of 25 surreal, mostly scifi short stories (2018, LL-Publishing)

  • Suppose We first in the Flying Crooked scifi series. Vegan protagonist on a vegan planet (2019, LL-Publishing)

  • Falling Up, Kepler's Son and Vanished Earth continue the Flying Crooked scifi series.

Non-fiction

  • Huddersfield's Changing Climate (1977)

  • Chester's Climate: past and present (1987) Republished with updates (2017)

  • Cheshire from Space remote sensing pack (1992, as project manager with Keith Hilton)

  • Inside Scoop (2008)

  • How to Win Short Story Competitions Second edition (2018) co-written with Dave Haslett

References