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

ARIA

Fiction

  • Escaping Reality
  • Dimensions, a sci-fi anthology with Robert Blevins
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bee now published in ebook only as Alien Exit
  • Hot Air
  • Escape Velocity - The Anthology, anthology with Robert Blevins
  • ARIA Trilogy - Left Luggage; Returning Left Luggage; Abandoned Left Luggage
  • The Chaos of Mokii
  • Xaghra's Revenge revised as Vengeance Island
  • Incremental a collection of 25 surreal, mostly scifi short stories
  • Suppose We first in the Flying Crooked scifi series. Vegan protagonist on a vegan planet
  • Falling Up, Kepler's Son and Vanished Earth continue the Flying Crooked scifi series.

Non-fiction