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Chris Beckett’s hard-hitting child abuse story to appear in Interzone
There have been a series of high profile child abuse, neglect and protection cases in Britain in the past year or so. One of these was the Child P case.
Chris Beckett is a Science Fiction writer who has a day job as senior lecturer in social work at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He has authored a number of academic textbooks on social work theory, ethics and child protection. This experience as a social worker also informs his fiction. His prize-winning collection of stories contains many first published in Interzone, a British short SF story magazine. Chris’s experience in child protection is critical to his new story ‘Johnny’s New Job’. That story is based on his reaction to the Baby P and similar cases.
The story will appear in Interzone’s March 2010 issue number 227 along with Chris Beckett’s editorial on its genesis. Copies of this should be in UK newsagents and some bookshops from 5th March but around 10 days later in the US.
Chris Beckett’s first Interzone story appeared in October 1990 and since then over 20 of his stories have appeared. His second novel ‘Marcher’ from 2008 was based on stories which first appeared in Interzone and made extensive use of his social work experience.
Interzone, a bimonthly magazine of speculative fiction, is renowned as one of Britain’s leading short story showcases and has developed an international reputation with authors and readers. Interzone discoveries often go on to a career in writing after youthful or early appearances with short fiction in its pages. 1980′s examples are Charles Stross and Greg Egan and more recent generations of British authors, like Liz Williams, Tony Ballantyne and Chris Beckett, have spread their wings beyond the UK and Interzone with novels and/or publication in US short story magazines.
Posted: March 2nd, 2010
Author: Lee
Categories: Latest News
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