Huw Langridge

Huw Langridge was born in 1973, the year his favourite novel was written. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke gave him the motivation and desire to write science fiction. Prior to that, a healthy obsession with all things horror had him emulating the work of Stephen King at every available opportunity.

He grew up in London and, during his years working as a global IT troubleshooter for an oil exploration company, Huw travelled to a number of places that enabled him to find inspiration and tone for his stories. More recently he has travelled the world working on an operations team delivering high-calibre investment conferences. He runs his own author website at www.huwlangridge.co.uk which features a number of his short stories and novels.

In July 2003 Huw attended an Arvon Foundation novel-writing course at the residential retreat at Lumb Bank in Yorkshire. The course was tutored by Martyn Bedford ("The Houdini Girl" and "Acts of Revision") and Phil Whitaker ("Triangulation" and "The Face"). The guest author was Louise Welsh ("The Cutting Room"). Also in attendance was Ian Marchant ("Parallel Lines"). Huw has cooked for all of them, and is glad they survived the ordeal.

Huw's first short story publication was the science fiction piece "The Ceres Configuration", published in Issue 4 of Jupiter SF Magazine, released in April 2004. The story was described by Adrian Fry of Whispers of Wickedness as "A good old fashioned (yet high-tech) tale of approaching apocalypse, [which] served to remind me just what unpretentious science fiction can do when written by someone who clearly relishes every word."

In Autumn 2004 he produced an eNovel called Spireclaw, now available to read (and as an audiobook) at www.spireclaw.com

Huw released his first print novel Schaefer's Integrity in December 2008. It was published by YouWriteOn and is available at all major online booksellers. Further published short works have appeared in The Ranfurly Review, Reflection's Edge, Jupiter SF, 365tomorrows and Supernatural Tales.

His short story "Last Train to Tassenmere" received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror 2009.

In September 2010 he released his short story collection The Axiom Few, published by Lulu.com, featuring three previously published stories and five stories new to the collection. His Axiom Few stories have received praise from a number of online SF review websites, such as SF Signal, SF Site and SF Crowsnest.

After his eNovel "Spireclaw" received praise online, Huw decided to release a non-profit print version which came out in September 2011.

Huw gets his inspiration from music, travel and the seasons. He lives in Surrey, England with his wife Alison and their young son Oliver..