I review books for Interzone, I curate the SF Mistressworks site, and I write my own fiction. I am represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
I’ve had short stories and poetry published in Postscripts, Jupiter, Alt Hist, and the original anthologies Catastrophia, Vivisepulture, The Monster Book for Girls, Where Are We Going? and The Maginot Line. In 2012, I edited the original anthology Rocket Science for Mutation Books. I am the founder and owner of Whippleshield Books, through which I have published my Apollo Quartet. The first book of the quartet, Adrift on the Sea of Rains, was published in April 2012. It has been nominated for the BSFA Award. The second book, The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself, was published in January 2013.
This is my blog.
I have another blog. It’s about books on space exploration and the space race. It’s called A Space About Books About Space.
And I have yet another blog. It’s where I post my occasional poems. It’s called sferse.
Bio
Ian Sales was only three when Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon, but he didn’t see it on television because he grew up in the Middle East. He lived in Qatar, Oman, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, before returning to the UK for schooling, spending only the holidays abroad. After graduating from university, he returned to Abu Dhabi to work – first for the Higher Colleges of Technology, and then for a national oil company. He came back to the UK in 2002 and settled in Yorkshire, where he now works as a database administrator for an ISP.
Putting this here since I’m not seeing an email address pop up, and you don’t seem to be in the most recent SFWA directory. I stumbled across a pic of part of your SF collection on Library Thing (the one with the shelf of Banks under the shelf of Datlow under the shelf of Dozois, next to the shelf of Crowley…), and I wanted to put in a request for more SF book porn because, well, I do know a bit about that particular addiction:
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/?p=595
Cheers!
PS: Oddly enough the thing I was actually searching for was a pic of the Collins first of Lud-in-the-Mist in dust jacket, since I’ve never seen one and am not sure any actually exist…
I have read 2 books now on kindle……but, just as I was getting engrossed in them, they end? Why not write to a conclusion instead of teasing us…..or am I missing the full version somewhere? Thicker than water was the last book i read, great but lost me just as it should have been getting going!
They’re short stories and will eventually form part of a series which will explain things.
Ian,
good luck with the publishing and the book,
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