science fiction – Robert Shepherd: Writer

My initiation into Faction Paradox

I’m really excited to be able to say I’m going to be part of a new Faction Paradox collection next year!

Elabon

An image of a reddish-purple planet suspended in space.

A chapter from a novel I wrote ages ago about swimming through space and the strange planets you come to as you do.

The Absence

The bottom of a human face with starlight visible above it.

It’s scary to think that aliens know the things we would never realise. But perhaps it’s even scarier when things are the other way round.

Zoology

Time-lapse image of the stars used to illustrate a story about the future.

In the future and in a zoo, the last member of our species is the smartest animal alive. But they find that means nothing at all, in a world that doesn’t think of them as human.