Simon Morden

Simon Morden is an English science fiction author, best known for his Philip K. Dick Award–winning Metrozone series of novels set in post-apocalyptic London.

Biography
Morden was educated as a scientist, attaining a BSc (Hons) in Geology from the University of Sheffield and his PhD 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 identifies as a Christian.

Morden first achieved success as a writer when his novel Heart was published by Razorblade Press in 2002.

His writing influences include Charles Stross, Ray Bradbury, Julian May, and Michael Marshall Smith

The Metrozone series

 * Equations of Life (2011, Orbit)
 * Theories of Flight (2011, Orbit)
 * Degrees of Freedom (2011, Orbit)
 * The Curve of the Earth (2013, Orbit)

The Down series

 * Down Station (February 2016)
 * The White City (2016, Gollancz)

The Frank Kittridge series

 * One Way (April 2018, Orbit)
 * No Way (February 2019, Orbit)

Stand-alone works

 * Heart (2002, Razorblade)
 * Another War (novella) (2005, Telos)
 * The Lost Art (2007, David Fickling)
 * Arcanum (19 November 2013, Orbit)
 * At The Speed Of Light (January 2017, Newcon Press)
 * Bright Morning Star (2019)
 * Gallowglass (as S.J. Morden) (December 2020, Gollancz)
 * The Red Planet - a natural history of Mars (2021 Elliott and Thompson Ltd)
 * The Flight Of The Aphrodite (as S.J. Morden) (November 2022, Gollancz)

Collections

 * Thy Kingdom Come (Multimedia disc) (2002, Lone Wolf Publications)
 * Thy Kingdom Come (Limited edition hardback) (2013, Jurassic London)
 * Brilliant Things (2004, Subway)

Awards

 * 2006 World Fantasy Award, Best Novella shortlist, Another War
 * 2009 Catalyst Book Award for teen fiction, shortlist, The Lost Art
 * 2012 Arthur C. Clarke Award, longlist, Equations of Life
 * 2012 Philip K. Dick Award, overall winner, The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy
 * 2013 BSFA Award for Best Artwork, shortlist, Thy Kingdom Come