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, Bachelor of Education
- ''Preditors & Editors Award for best science fiction novel''
ARIA
- Left Luggage
- Returning Left Luggage
- ''Abandoned Luggage''
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
- Huddersfield's Changing Climate
- Chester's Climate: past and present Republished with updates
- Cheshire from Space remote sensing pack
- Inside Scoop
- How to Win Short Story Competitions Second edition co-written with Dave Haslett