Future Britains Anthology Preorders are available!

Support this British indie author collective and help fund our cover design.

Headline: pre-order your print copy of the inaugural Future Britains anthology volume from today! Signed copies available for six weeks only!

For those following, it’s probably seemed a little quiet on the Future Britains front since I announced our anthology project back in March:

But behind the scenes we’ve been brainstorming our story ideas, sharing our first drafts, and have formed into small BETA reading teams. And wow, I wish I could share some of these story ideas and drafts with you!

Oh wait, I can:

Down on the Farm

by FranB

BeatReality

by Samuel Evans

No more teasers now! Beyond that we have over 20 more grounded sci-fi and Dystopian stories covering topics such as AI over-reach, culture suppression, the breakdown of the United Kingdom, catastrophic flooding, nomadic societies, human-made monsters, and so much more. We even have Scots-Gaelic and Welsh language representation.

The Campaign

As a community project, we are asking for your support to help fund professional services such as cover design, proofreading, and fingers crossed, audiobook narration. All pre-orders will go directly to fund production costs of the final book. Bag your paperback or luxury hardback copy here:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/futurebritains

Oh, and did I mention that all pre-order customers will be named in the acknowledgements of the final book?

Any questions, drop me a DM or email martingracewrites@gmail.com.

I’m so proud to be the curator of what is shaping up to be an awesome, and perhaps even culturally important, short story collection.

The Contributors

Amongst us there’s traditionally published authors, award-winners, Amazon#1 bestsellers… and me.

• Alex Gough
  Author of historical fiction including the Mark Antony series, the Imperial Assassin series and the Carbo of Rome series.

• Brad James
  I dropped my soul on the kitchen floor and it somehow fell through a hidden trapdoor! There’s some wonders down there... join me, why don’t you?

• Caitriana NicNeacail
  Loves physics, history, theology, sci-fi, birds, beetles, the sea, and exploring new places far and near.

• Caroline Barnard-Smith
  Award-winning horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer from the UK. Collects haunted clowns. Paints it black.

• 🌸 Carolyn Jones 🌸
  English teacher. MA in Creative Writing. Inspired by nature’s rhythms, music’s magic, and worlds within books.

• Evelyn K. Brunswick
  Counter-subversion agent; writes ironic speculative fiction and offbeat philosophy and dark dissociative poetry.

• FranB (Frances Brindle)
  I write ghost stories and cosy horror (nothing too gory!). My work has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies.

• Gary Mucklow
  I write stories that ask what it means to be human in a world of dreaming machines and fractured memory.

• Graeme Brandham
  Waxing lyrical about story and writing my novel, creating a serialisation where I show the entire process from start to finish.

• Jade Bates - Author
  I’m a 30-something who writes whilst trying to raise two little people. You can find my work on Underdog Authors (September winner), or find my book on Amazon: The monsters we keep.

• Johnathan Reid
  Speculative novel, short story & poetry writer who ‘shows’ fiction, not ‘tells’ writing advice. Traits include pragmatic futurist, intelligent humanist and rational skeptic.

• LIMINAL BRITAIN (Lawrence Gray)
  I wrote episodes of UK cop and doc dramas before moving to Hong Kong, where I made indie-movies, wrote TV drama series for Singapore TV, published short stories, novels, and newspaper articles.

• Louis Urbanowski
  Tales from a Liminal Town on Mondays, short stories on Wednesdays, and updates on The Right Members Club every Friday.

• Martin Grace
  Serialising my debut science fiction novel, The Moon Talker. Plus sharing other speculative stories and musings about humanity, technology and the environment.

• Nick Grace
  Speculative fiction writer and Douglas Adams super fan, who grew up in East Africa and thinks he’s too cool to be on Substack. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Science Fiction Stories (Nick J. Taylor)
  Writer and musician lives with a black cat called Spangle in the rather nice Cotswolds. He has no problem with toasters.

• Nick Winney
  I experiment with style and am on a mission to reach literary nirvana. A particular love for the bizarre, the horrid, the beautiful ugly and mysterious.

• Olympia Black
  Writer of dark dystopian sci-fi romance set inside a galactic empire.

• Rebecca Harrison
  Rebecca Harrison sneezes like Donald Duck and her best friend is a dog who can count. Her first book, The White Horse, is a gothic folk horror.

• Samuel Evans
  I’m a long-time teacher of English literature, a proud father and a would be author of stories on the human condition, with all its beauty and frailty.

• Sophie Thompson
  Writer originally hailing from Northern Ireland, living in Essex. Shares short and serialised speculative fiction (mostly spooky or folky).

• Stephen Barrett
  Stephen Barrett is an emerging fiction writer. His work explores the darker aspects of the human condition, often through a surreal or speculative lens.

• Steve Kelsey
  I lived through the first Cold War. I’m a Londoner, contrary, widely traveled, prone to wild exaggeration and prevarication in equal measure.

• White Craw Press (Anndrais mac Choluim)
  Weekly historical fiction.

Thanks for your support in whatever form that takes.