Geoff is the Science and Technology Editor of The Economist. His professional interests include evolutionary biology, genetic engineering, the fight against AIDS and other widespread infectious diseases, the development of new energy technologies, and planetology. His personal interests include using total eclipses of the sun as an excuse to visit weird parts of the world (Antarctica, Easter Island, Amasya, the Nullarbor Plain), and watching swifts hunting insects over his garden of a summer’s evening, preferably with a glass of Cynar in hand.
As someone who loathed English lessons at school, he says he is frequently astonished that he now earns his living by writing. “That I have written a novel, albeit a technothriller rather than anything with fancy literary pretensions, astonishes me even more, since what drew me into writing in the first place was describing reality, not figments of the imagination. On the other hand, perhaps describing reality is what fiction is actually for.”
Like Elsewhen Press, Geoff was born in Dartford. Unlike Elsewhen, he escaped at the age of two and has never returned…
Genesis, Geoff’s technothriller debut novel, was published by Elsewhen Press on 25th January 2019.
Reviews:
- “captivating … and … thought-provoking” – review of Genesis on Risingshadow
- “fast-moving and gripping climax” – review of Genesis on SFcrowsnest
News:
- Genesis by Geoffrey Carr out today on eBook platforms January 25, 2019
- Novel by Science Editor of The Economist conjures the threat of self-aware AI arising in the Cloud December 6, 2018
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Geoff can be contacted via Elsewhen Press using geoffrey.carr (at) elsewhen.co.uk