Geoff Nelder's Bio.
Geoff Nelder escaped from his roots in the south of England and now lives in the north. He would do most things for a laugh but had to pay the mortgage so he taught I.T. and Geography in the local High school. After thirty years in the learning and wild-animal control business he nearly become good at it. A post-war baby boomer, he has post-grad researched and written about climatic change, ran computer clubs and was editor of a Computer User Group magazine for 11 years. He read voraciously after his mother enrolled him into the children's science fiction book club when he was four, and has written for fun since his fingers moved independently. His experiences on geographical expeditions have found themselves into amusing pieces in the Times Educational Supplement and taking his family on house-swap holidays years before they became popular added both authenticity and wild imagination to his creativity.
Academic awards include: MSc (Master of Science), BEd (Batchelor of Education), and he is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. (FRMet S).
Geoff Nelder lives in Chester with his long-suffering wife and has two grown-up children whose sense and high intelligence persist in being a mystery to him.
Geoff has published a couple of climate books, several academic articles in journals such as Weather, Teaching Geography, Primary Geographer and RM User Group magazine. He managed and was Editor-in-chief of a remote sensing resource, Cheshire from Space in 1992.
He has short stories published in Horror Masters, Gatto Publishing, Jupiter Magazine, and Bewildering Stories as well as at BeWrite, Toowrite, and a variety of literary magazines. Five of his short stories were published in an anthology Dimensions, paper and hardcover by Adventure Books.
He has had fun as a lead scriptwriter for the experimental Internet TV sitcom, LUSH.
His first novel, a humour thriller, Escaping Reality ISBN 095495632X is published in the summer of 2005 by Brambling Books Buy the book!
These days, Geoff is busy researching and writing science fiction novels, and has great hopes for an original premise that popped into his head while riding his bicycle hard up a Welsh hill. Watch out for the Left Luggage trilogy. Another original ideas science fiction he's working on is Exit, pursued by a bee.
Hot Air won the Silver Award in the best unpublished novel category at the World & Universal Arts Academy, Groningen, Netherlands summer 2007. Hot Air, a thriller, will be published as part of the Award.
Geoff is a co-editor at Adventure Books of Seattle. Our debut science fiction magazine, Escape Velocity, was published in November 2007