Most recently, his published novels include the Downs-Lord trilogy concerning the establishment of empire in an alternative, monster-ridden England, and Frankenstein’s Legions, a sequel to Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction work, in which the techniques of creating life from the dead are turned to political ends.
A former archaeologist and British civil servant, he lives in at least one of the several parallel Binscombes, of which he says: “The scenery and backdrop to the stories may be seen and experienced, in Binscombe itself, and Farncombe and Compton and Godalming and Guildford and Epsom and elsewhere. The inspiration for them lives on, independent and blissfully ignorant of me.”
John adds, “All that a reader need know about me is that I’m struggling up the shore of middle age, living with my wife, Liz, my son, Joseph and daughters, Rebecca and Esther, in a part of the south country where the graveyards and old records are littered, over the last four centuries or so, with strangers bearing my surname. Beyond that there is silence, but I suspect we go back still further.”
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