J.K. Fulton

J.K. Fulton grew up at Scottish lighthouses and now lives in Leicester.

His stories have appeared in Shoreline of Infinity, Leicester Writes Short Story Anthology, Best of British Science Fiction 2018, Uncharted Constellations, Dark Scotland and Severed Souls.

His novels include The Wreck of the Argyll and The Beast on the Broch.

Interview with the Author

Uncharted Constellations Contributions

Always Carry A Spare is a space adventure fuelled by pitch-black humour with life-or-death stakes. Here’s a snippet:

Advanced Neural Navigation Module, we’re supposed to call them, but no one ever does. To the poor saps who fly these tin cans between the stars, they’re Z-modules. Z for Zombie. When you think that the most crucial component of a starship is a severed human head, wiped clean of all memories, and reprogrammed as a navigation system, it does creep you out a bit.

Scattered Across the Stars follows generations of scientists as they investigate otherworldly rocks during a century of meteorological encounters. Here’s a snippet:

‘I couldn’t say, sir,’ said Simpson, following Hume’s gaze skywards. But it was a marvel. Not that the rock had come across space, but that Hume’s gaze was fixed on the stars, and not on the rocks beneath his feet.

Severed Souls Contribution

Call of the Void follows a NASA astronaut as she goes out on a seemingly routine spacewalk and encounters an unexpected force that pulls her from the life she knew. Here’s a snippet:

There it is. A bright white assemblage in the sun, its multitude of solar panels enveloping it like a many-winged Byzantine angel. Salvation.

But it’s so far away.

Bark & Bone Contribution

Icewood plunges a team of interplanetary trash collectors deep into the oceans of the moon Europa. Here’s a snippet:

What those heroes of the first expedition don’t tell you on the podcasts and glossy exclusives is that in the process of making their oh-so-momentous discovery, they left an RTG on the floor of the ocean. Right in the middle of an icewood forest.

Seriously. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator. A nuclear battery. In the middle of the first alien biome we’ve ever found. There’s littering, and then there’s what these clowns did.

Guest Blog

Moon, Mars, and Meteorites (Guest blog: J.K. Fulton)

Science fact and science fiction packed my bookshelves, and when I turned to writing short stories as a teen, the call of space made itself felt in the subjects I chose. Even now, more than 40 years later, I can see that my story Scattered Across the Stars was heavily influenced by that HMSO publication; it features both a meteorite and a tentative explanation for mankind’s fascination with the universe beyond our own tiny globe.

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