Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett studied Psychology at Bristol University and qualified as a social worker at Bangor, North Wales, in 1980, going on to work for eighteen years as a social worker and social work manager, and then for fifteen years as a social work lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East Anglia. He has had a parallel career for some time as a writer of fiction and is now a full-time writer. His novel, Dark Eden was the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2012.
Chris Beckett studied Psychology at Bristol University and qualified as a social worker at Bangor, North Wales, in 1980, going on to work for eighteen years as a social worker and social work manager, and then for fifteen years as a social work lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East Anglia. He has had a parallel career for some time as a writer of fiction and is now a full-time writer. His novel, Dark Eden was the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for 2012. See less
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Chris Beckett book reviews
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Beneath the World, a Sea
Bizarre and Unprecedented
by Abigail, Jun 26, 2019
The Submundo Delta is unlike anywhere else on Earth. The forest floor is made up of tree roots, tangled together over the sea to make up a landmass, the foliage is magenta and the creatures are ... Read More
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Marcher
Parallel Universes SciFi
by Lorna B, Nov 17, 2014
Quite an involving story. Mixture of gritty realism and the emotional, psychological, and moral dilemmas created when there is an fairly easily available means of moving between alternative universes. Read More
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Dark Eden
A sad sad book
This is a sad book - a sad sad book, as the people of Eden would say. They are the 500 or so descendants of two explorers who were marooned in a strange land with no sun, only a dim light produced ... Read More
