About Me

My name is Niall Harrison. If you're looking for the Niall Harrison who went to Reading Blue Coat School, or who read biochemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford, between 1998 and 2002, or who works as a Medical Writer, then you're in the right place. If you're looking for the Niall Harrison who reads far too much sf and spends too much of his spare time thinking and writing about it, then you're definitely in the right place.

Briefly, I'm a twenty-something science fiction fan and would-be critic. Among others, I have reviewed for Interzone, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Bookslut, Foundation, Vector, Strange Horizons, and The Internet Review of Science Fiction. I blog at Torque Control, the Vector editorial blog. I've also written occasional articles for fanzines and such. A bibliography can be found here; if you follow it through in chronological order you can (I hope) see me learning as you go.

In the copious spare time all that leaves me, I am editor of Vector, as well as reviews editor for Strange Horizons. I was a judge for the British Science Fiction Association's 2005 non-fiction award, and I am a judge for the current (2008, for books published in 2007) Arthur C. Clarke Award.

If you've got any questions (or if you feel the urge to send me free books for review) please get in touch.