read all about Bone Song read all about Dark Blood read all about Paradox (Nulapeiron 1) read all about Context (Nulapeiron 2) read all about Resolution (Nulapeiron 3) read all about To Hold Infinity

My UK publishers for Absorption and its sequels, as well as Bone Song and Dark Blood, are the terrific folk at Gollancz, the SF imprint of Orion.

The publishers of Edge and the forthcoming Point, in the UK and US and elswhere, are Angry Robot, the new HarperCollins imprint.

My lovely US publishers for the Tristopolis books are Bantam (Random House).

The magnificent Pyr SF publish my other SF books in the US.

In the UK, To Hold Infinity, Paradox, Context and Resolution are published by Bantam which is an imprint of Transworld.

Links to places I find interesting

MIND...

John with Paul McKenna

www.mckenna.com Paul is the UK's number-one non-fiction author and a household name from his TV shows in the UK and now in the US, including the I Can Make You Thin series.

He's a different kind of self-help expert, he's the world's best-known hypnotist, and hugely charismatic. In the past he's taught neuro-linguistic programming alongside the field's creator Richard Bandler. He's a cool dude, and I've been privileged to assist at some of his live events.

Dark Blood (US title Black Blood) is dedicated to Paul, and for good reason.

BODY...

John after his workout

www.mattfurey.com Matt Furey's bodyweight exercises are in many ways the heart of my personal conditioning programme. Whether you like his marketing style or not, his system is excellent, used by elite martial artists and by people who simply like a routine they can do anywhere, even in a hotel room.

www.rmaxinternational.com SF writer Steve Barnes considers Scott Sonnon to be a physical genius, and he may be right. He has exercises for people who may be very heavy, and will want to do a shallow knee bend by holding onto a chair, and get full exertion and benefit from that; and he's got sophisticated agility routines that blow the minds of leading martial artists and free runners -- yes, the parkour guys, too, rate him very, very highly.

www.morrisnoholdsbarred.co.uk For real fighters... Until he pissed every one of them off, Britain's top karate guys proclaimed Steve Morris the best martial artist that the UK has ever produced. But Steve abandoned karate long ago for harsher and more realistic training. He's now in his 60s and can rip professional MMA (no holds barred) fighters apart. If you're a male student of traditional karate who trains in a British church hall or an American McDojo, and imagines himself a samurai (having read Shogun and Shibumi, perhaps) then you don't want to visit this website, because it'll leave your illusions in tatters.

His techniques are based on biomechanics and neurology, and his attitude is a deliberate berserker psychosis. And his partner is renowned SF writer Tricia Sullivan.

SPIRIT... or at least books...

John at the Borderlands table at Worldcon, Boston

www.borderlands-books.com These lovely, lovely people are based in San Francisco. The gentleman with the long black hair is Alan Beatts, whose party trick is weirder than mine. He can pass his entire body through a coat hangar. Like a hula hoop, but much smaller... His hairless alien cat Ripley goes to work in the bookstore with him every day.