Dave Barsby

A native of Central England, Dave is a civil servant and film addict who has a creative writing degree, several short stories, hundreds of articles, a handful of unpublished sci-fi novels and half a dozen years as a magazine sub-editor under his (somewhat large) belt.

Published novels currently include:

The Jack Stone Trilogy (The Oracle Design, Virion and Endgame), a trio of near-future spy thrillers where the titular secret agent tries to stop enemies from destroying America via a) a man who can predict the future, b) an engineered viral pandemic and c) a woman who manipulates global governments against the US.

Travels in Space (an occasional series): Part 1 - Mercenary, a silly comedy in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy vein where a journalist tries their hand at travel writing only to find themselves helping out a mercenary crew kidnap the Princess of the galaxy's richest planet.

Murder Murder Murder, a contemporary black comedy thriller where ordinary people from across the world are pitted against each other in fights to the death.

Vaguely pinging distantly on the radar is:

A biography of an Italian man who lived through extreme poverty, being conscripted in the Second World War and trying to make something of himself to provide for his family in the economically-ravaged post-war country.

A multi-part epic detailing the next few thousand years of humanity, with each book styled in a different subgenre such as political thriller, post-apocalypse, fantasy and military SF.

When not charging across America in a muscle car or visiting random European cities, Dave lives in Derby with a mass of books and DVDs to keep him entertained, and a rapidly-receding hairline to worry about.

The unpublished sci-fi novels, scribbled in his teens and twenties, are caged up and waiting to see if they'll ever be released into the daylight.