John Meaney

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One of the most original voices, and most insightful thinkers, the genre has ever produced. Robert J. Sawyer, award-winning author of FlashForward

I'm John Meaney, science fiction and fantasy author. I also write near-future thrillers under the pseudonym of Thomas Blackthorne. Welcome to my virtual home! Pull up a chair, and let's catch up on what's happening.

LATEST NEWS: My near-future thriller EDGE is now out in the UK. This is the first book I've written as Thomas Blackthorne, and I'm currently finishing the sequel, POINT, which appears later this year. I'm appearing at the SFX Weekender, 5th and 6th February (i.e. this weekend!), and signing books at the Forbidden Planet megastore in London on Friday 12th February. The Forbidden Planet event includes a COMPETITION whose winner will die a gruesome death as a character in POINT! I'll also be attending (and participating in panels at) Eastercon 2nd-5th April. Come along and say hi!

EDGE is set some three decades from now, in a Britain where the blade generation has grown up, a corrupt government has legalized duelling, and prime-time entertainment – Knife Edge – is cage-fighting with knives. Josh Cumberland is ex-special forces, tracking down a missing rich kid who's hoplophobic (afraid of weapons) on the streets of London, along with a beautiful psychotherapist possessing interesting abilities of her own.

Under my own name, I've written ABSORPTION, being the first volume of the big-SF Ragnarok trilogy. The publication date is 20th May this year, in the UK.

And on the personal front, I'm now esconced in a Welsh valley, rediscovering fresh air and the joy of tramping around in actual forest... and with luck delivering better books ever more quickly for you to read!

The nice things people say...

One thing Dark Blood doesn't do is let you relax... One of the most satisfying border crossing fusions of Dark Fantasy, Horror and hard Science Fiction in years... Anthony Brown, Starburst

John Meaney is a spectacular writer. He makes SF seem all fresh and new again. Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author

Meaney is a wonderful writer who deserves worldwide recognition. Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City

John Meaney has rewired SF. Everything is different now. Stephen Baxter

Meaney is one of the best authors of hard SF in the world... SFX

...one of British science fiction's most original and exciting practitioners. Barnes & Noble

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