COLOURFIELDS: WRITING ABOUT WRITING ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION
Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Briardene Books; 2025
978-1-7385617-2-8
WINNER: BSFA Award for Best Long Non-Fiction
Shortlisted: Hugo Award for Best Related Work
KEITH ROBERTS’S PAVANE: A CRITICAL COMPANION
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
Cham, Switzerland; Palgrave Macmillan; 2024
978-3-031-71566-2
Shortlisted: BSFA Award for Best Long Non-Fiction
ROBERT HOLDSTOCK’S MYTHAGO WOOD: A CRITICAL COMPANION
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
Cham, Switzerland; Palgrave Macmillan; 2022
978-3-031-10373-5
BRIAN W. ALDISS
Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Urbana; University of Illinois Press; 2022
978-0-252-04448-9
THE UNSTABLE REALITIES OF CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
SF Storyworlds
Canterbury; Gylphi; 2020
978-1-78024-088-8
Shortlisted: BSFA Best Non-Fiction Award; British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction
IAIN M. BANKS
Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Urbana; University of Illinois Press; 2017
978-0-252-04101-3
WINNER: BSFA Best Non-Fiction Award
Shortlisted: Hugo Award for Best Related Work; Finalist: Locus Award for Non-Fiction
CALL AND RESPONSE
Harold Wood; Beccon Publications; 2014
978-1-870824-62-0
Shortlisted: BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction
WHAT IT IS WE DO WHEN WE READ SCIENCE FICTION
Harold Wood; Beccon Publications; 2008
978-1-870824-54-5
Shortlisted: Hugo Award for Best Related Work; BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction; British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction; Finalist: Locus Award for Non-Fiction
THE TIMECHART HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
Co-authored with James R. Arnold et.al.
St Paul, MN; MBI Publishing; 2001
0-681-60299-6
A VERY BRITISH GENRE
Folkestone; British Science Fiction Association; 1995
1-870824-37-7
KEITH ROBERTS
Co-edited with Geoff Rippington
Includes my long essay, “The Touch of Phantom Hands: The Science Fiction of Keith Roberts”
British Science Fiction Writers
Folkestone; British Science Fiction Association; 1983
BEST OF VECTOR VOL.1: THE STATE OF THE ART
Co-edited with Maureen Kincaid Speller
Reprints my essay, “British SF: An Obituary”
British Science Fiction Association; 2015
BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: TWENTY YEARS, TWO SURVEYS
Compiled and edited with Niall Harrison
Includes my complete Mexicon Survey of 1989, with Niall Harrison’s BSFA Survey of 2009
St Albans; Odd Two Out; 2010
978-0-9558662-1-0
THE ARTHUR C.CLARKE AWARD: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY
Co-edited with Andrew M. Butler
Daventry; Serendip Foundation; 2006
978-0-9552416-0-4