Nationality British Name Simon Morden Genre Science fiction Role Author | Spouse Yes Children 2 | |
Notable works Metrozone series (aka The Samuil Petrovitch series) 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.