Christopher Orland

Chris Orland is a writer based in the West of England. He has co-scripted a number of sitcom pilots, as well as a feature-length screenplay, and is gaining accolades for his growing collection of popular imaginative stories:

SHORT STORIES >>

ANY YOUNGER (2025)

Life is sweet for native New Yorker Harry Young, a successful pianist approaching his 65th birthday. Once this milestone is reached, however, Harry finds himself gradually undergoing a uniquely bizarre and unpredictable transformation, which jeopardises not only his relationships but also the whole of his future.

THE TYCOON (2022)

WSBA 2022 Red Ribbon Winner

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, asserted that "with great wealth comes great responsibility." Hank Jefferson, oil tycoon, has other ideas… A tale for the times, from the author of the sci-fi epic "Beyond the Brink"

NOVELLAS >>

STRANGE GRANGE (2023)

The life of Biochemistry undergrad Will Whyte is transformed when he literally disappears into a radical private experiment conducted by his brilliant lecturer, Professor Heston Heale.

BLINK (2019)

Southern England, 2024. When a motorist narrowly avoids mowing down a mysterious man standing in front of his car, the driver is plunged into a shadowy world that stretches from the pinnacle of Government to the forefront of scientific exploration.

CHIME (2017)

WSBA 2017 Finalist

Boston, Massachusetts, 2062. A pair of young robotics engineers happen across a unique chord that, when heard in headphones, appears to return the listener mentally to a minute of their life that occurred years before.

NOVELS >>

BEYOND THE BRINK (2018)

"A thought-provoking high-tech thriller by a very talented author" - Wishing Shelf Book Awards

By the first decade of the 22nd Century, the dream of intercontinental human teleportation has become a reality, thanks to the scientists of a powerful conglomerate known as GTP, the Global Teleportation Partnership. Hotshot technology salesman Guy Rennix is offered a free trip from London to New York, travelling via teleportation, but the journey takes him way further than anyone could predict…