Geoff Nelder

Geoff Nelder is a British freelance editor and author. He has written both fiction and non-fiction, and his research in the field of air pollution and climate won him a fellowship with the Royal Meteorological Society. Nelder's fictional work falls in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and thrillers, and he is known for his sci-fi series ARIA, which won him a Preditors & Editors Award for best science fiction novel. Nelder also published the sci-fi magazine Escape Velocity, which launched in 2009. Prior to moving to writing as his primary occupation, Nelder has worked as a teacher at Queens Park High School for 26 years.

In 1975 Nelder became a life member of the British Vegan Society. In 2009 Nelder became a publisher for BeWrite Books, an independent publisher.

Awards

 * Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Master of Science (Sheffield), Bachelor of Education
 * Preditors & Editors Award for best science fiction novel (ARIA: Left Luggage) (2013, won)

ARIA

 * Left Luggage (2012, LL-Publications, ISBN 978-1905091959)
 * Returning Left Luggage (2013, LL-Publications, ISBN 978-0957472655)
 * Abandoned Luggage (TBA)

Fiction

 * Escaping Reality (2005, Brambling Books, ISBN 978-0954956325)
 * Dimensions, a sci-fi anthology with Robert Blevins (2006, Adventure Books of Seattle)
 * Exit, Pursued by a Bee (2008, Double Dragon Publishing, ISBN 978-1554045945) now published in ebook only as Alien Exit
 * Hot Air (2011, Adventure Books of Seattle)
 * Escape Velocity - The Anthology, anthology with Robert Blevins (2011, Adventure Books of Seattle)
 * ARIA Trilogy - Left Luggage; Returning Left Luggage; Abandoned Left Luggage (2012 - 2015, LL-Publishing)
 * The Chaos of Mokii (2016, Solstice Publishing)
 * Xaghra's Revenge (2018, Solstice Publishing) revised as Vengeance Island
 * Incremental a collection of 25 surreal, mostly scifi short stories (2018, LL-Publishing)
 * Suppose We first in the Flying Crooked scifi series. Vegan protagonist on a vegan planet (2019, LL-Publishing)
 * Falling Up, Kepler's Son and Vanished Earth continue the Flying Crooked scifi series.

Non-fiction

 * Huddersfield's Changing Climate (1977)
 * Chester's Climate: past and present (1987) Republished with updates (2017)
 * Cheshire from Space remote sensing pack (1992, as project manager with Keith Hilton)
 * Inside Scoop (2008)
 * How to Win Short Story Competitions Second edition (2018) co-written with Dave Haslett ISBN 978-1719861663