James Smythe

James Smythe was born in London and now lives in West Sussex. Since receiving a PhD from Cardiff University, he has worked as both a Creative Writing teacher and as a writer/narrative designer of video games.

His debut novel, HEREDITATION, was published as part of Parthian's Bright Young Things series in 2009. His next book, THE TESTIMONY, a novel about the voice of God, terrorism and the apocalypse, was published in April 2012 by HarperCollins (Blue Door). In December 2012, HarperCollins (Voyager) published THE EXPLORER, a science fiction novel in the vein of 2001 and Solaris.

In April 2013, HarperCollins (Blue Door) will publish THE MACHINE.

He currently writes a continuing series of articles for The Guardian called Rereading Stephen King. He can be found on twitter @jpsmythe and Facebook.