Nationality British Name Simon Morden Genre Science fiction Role Author | Spouse Yes Children 2 | |
Notable works Metrozone series (aka The Samuil Petrovitch series) Notable awards Philip K. Dick Award (2011) Nominations World Fantasy Award for Best Novella Books Another War, Arcanum, The Lost Art, Degrees of Freedom, Equations of Life | ||
Education Bachelor of Science, PhD | ||
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Simon Morden is a British science fiction author, best known for his Philip K. Dick Award-winning Metrozone series of novels set in post-apocalyptic London.
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Biography
Morden was educated as a scientist, attaining a B.Sc. (Hons) in Geology from the University of Sheffield and his Ph.D in Geophysics from Newcastle University.
Morden has worked in a variety of roles including a school caretaker, an admin assistant, a personal assistant to a financial advisor and is currently a teaching assistant for a design technology class at a primary school in Gateshead. In terms of his writing career, Morden is the former editor of Focus magazine; he has been on the Arthur C. Clarke Award judging panel; and he's a regular speaker on Christian matters in fiction at the Greenbelt Festival.
Morden first achieved success as a writer when his novel Heart was published by Razorblade Press in 2002.