What is Hocking doing right now?
Notable articles on this blog
- Podcast interview with David Mitchell
- Thriller writing: Taking stick from Jason Bourne
- An interview with Mil Millington Part 1 and Part 2
- Approaching an agent
- The ups and downs of writing
- On writing 'Proper Job'
- My Waterstone's adventure
- Depression in the arts
Current Writing Projects
Déjà Vu
'Shows quiet skill. ...Larger publishers take note.' The
Guardian
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'Very cool and stylish.'
Forbidden Planet
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'Great pace and strong characterisation.' Scott Pack
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'Gripping, fascinating, and powerful.' Ian Watson
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'Thoroughly recommended.' SciFi.uk.com
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'You've never read anything like it before.' SFX
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'Assured use of cutting-edge science fiction ideas.' Ken MacLeod
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'Breaks new ground. ...An enviable debut.' Stepher Gallagher
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'A mind-blowing experience.' POD-by-Mouth
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'Inventive and witty.' Andy Sawyer, The
Alien Online
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'Intriguing, clever and fresh.'
Debra Hamel, book-blog.com
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'Sound scientific extrapolation and mature confidence.' Stan Nicholls
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'Consistently interesting...crisp and professional.' Grumpy Old
Bookman
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'Science fiction in the tradition of such fine exponents as Baxter and
Clarke.' Steve Mazey, The Eternal
Night
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'Adventurous and very impressive.' Exeposé
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'Clever and satisfying.' Tregolwyn Book Reviews
- Déjà Vu is available as a free audiobook.
- Read the first chapter (PDF)
- All reviews of Déjà Vu
- Buy the book
- Email me
Flashback
- Air crash investigation, time travel, and a sentient computer the size of a credit card. Read more.
Proper Job
- Pasties, ice-cream, pixies, and sarcasm. Read more.
Where the Devil is Adam?
Works That Feature My Words
In Our Own Words

Introduction to Infant Development

Q&A Studying Psychology

Previous Posts
- Girl on Demand
- Quid pro quo with Dr Lector
- British SF authors in Free Speech protest antholog...
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- The science in science fiction
- Live from her keyboard
- Vorsprung durch technik
- So do you not think that people strike just 'cause...
- Back in my day
- Please Please Me
About Me
[Photo copyright (c) Mimika Cooney 2004.] I'm a British writer who published his first book in 2005 to critical acclaim. As well as being a writer, I'm an Associate Lecturer in psychological research methods at the Open University, an Associate Tutor at Canterbury Christ Church University and Psychology Section Editor for Intute, a UK higher education information and research service. Say howdy via ian_hocking (at) uk2.net.
- Contact my agent, John Jarrold, via email or his website.
This Writing Mug
Interviews
Audio interviews
Audio stories
- 'Under the Limes', read by David Goodwin. Text available on the Laura Hird writers' showcase.
Aided and abetted by
Other blogs on the web
- Michael Acton
- John Baker
- E.S. Bryant
- Tony Campbell
- Cory Doctorow
- David Gardiner
- Jon Courtney Grimwood
- John Griffiths
- Drew Gummerson
- James Hazlehurst
- Tara Hanks
- Shaun Jeffrey
- Steven Johnson
- Andrea Lowne
- Ken Macleod
- Valerie McKinley
- Peter Merrigan
- Mil's Apology
- Chrissy Moore-Haines
- Roger Morris
- Simon Murphy
- Claire Nixon
- Alan Rogers
- Tom Saunders
- Steve Smith
- Street Fame
- Mark Turley
- Omma Velada (and home of Gold Dust magazine)
- Aliya Whiteley
- World Science






8 Comments:
I see no video! I want to see video!
By the way, you might want to rethink that first sentence.
Very impressive, Ian! I wouldn't dare even try that manoeuver.
lol Thanks, Debra. You could be right...
Thanks, Susan. It takes years of practice, of course...which is why I managed to drop one on the floor!
oooo very impressed ... have just started fiddling and embedding myself but not got as far as video ... bravo!
xxx
Thanks for your comment, ivory. Go ahead and upload something!
Today I see it! And I've alerted the authorities. This kind of thing is just.... Well, I can't go on.
Just think, Debra, we do this *every* year...
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