About Me

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I am the author of four short story collections:

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A Summer Sky 

 

The Absence of Wings

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The Other Side of the Sky: Letters from an Astronaut

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The Last Aviator

 

Plus one soon to be published novella, The Quiet Limits of the World, about the effects of climate change, pollution and over population. 

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I have recently completed a series of short stories about the Battle of Britain (The Painted Sky), many of which focus on the conflict from a female perspective.

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I am currently working on a new collection of short stories, that again champions Nature and conservation, entitled The Shadow of their Wings (a reference to the plight of butterflies and moths, two species whose numbers have declined drastically in recent times).

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I also co-authored and co-edited the biography Arthur C. Clarke – A Life Remembered.

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In 2014 I won the Sir Patrick Moore Medal for services to the British Interplanetary Society where I founded and edited the e-magazine, Odyssey, for two and a half years. 

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My articles and essays have been published in Odyssey, Spaceflight, Astronomy Now, Foundation magazine, and the journal of the British Astronomical Association.

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I now live on the South Downs; members of my non-human family include rabbits, horses, foxes and hedgehogs.

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“I've enjoyed and admired the stories of Mark Stewart that I have read: they strike me as fine bonsai pieces, strong in their structure and dense in their grain, full of surprising drama.”  

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Robert Macfarlane

(Author of The Wild Places, and Landmarks)

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The Infinitesimals – “A curious, interesting, strange, raging and intense story. I liked particularly the notion of reflection and connection between the miniscule and the galactic, and the sense that even the most mundane or 'common' things can reflect far more than we may realise.” 

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Rob Cowen

(Author of Common Ground)

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“Mark Stewart looks at the world and our place in it from unusual standpoints.  His deeply moving stories, at once poetic and analytic, take the reader on a reflective journey through space and time, making us step back from the world we think we know and see it afresh through the unclouded eyes of an outsider.  He writes beautifully and elegiacally, in wonder at what we humans have been given by nature, and in sorrow for how recklessly we gamble our fragile inheritance.”

 

Ronald Wright

(Author of A Scientific Romance and A Short History of Progress)  

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The Dreaming Spires – “To be truthful, I found it almost impossible to read, it is so poignant."

Sir David Attenborough