David Barnett (born 11 January 1970) is an English

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and

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. He began his journalism career in local newspapers, first the Wigan Observer and Chorley Guardian before moving on to the

Lancashire Evening Post The ''Lancashire Post'' is a daily newspaper based in Fulwood, a suburb of the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. Until 14 January 2017 it was known as the ''Lancashire Evening Post''. According to the British Library The British Library ...

. He caught the tail-end of the era of typewriters before newsrooms replaced them with computers. He has several published books, including ''Hinterland'' (Immanion Press, 2005, re-issued 2008), ''Angelglass'' (Immanion Press, 2007) and ''The Janus House and Other Two-Faced Tales'' (Immanion Press, 2009). Born in

Wigan Wigan ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, to the south-east, and Liverpool, to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its ad ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...

, England, he has worked at the ''

Telegraph & Argus The ''Telegraph & Argus'' is the daily newspaper for Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is published six times each week, from Monday to Saturday inclusive. The newspaper has offices in Newhall Way, Bradford, from where its journalists work ...

''.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Hinterland'' (Immanion Press, 1 April 2005; paperback ) * ''Angelglass'' (Immanion Press, 15 November 2007; paperback ) * ''The Janus House and Other Two-Faced Tales'' (Immanion Press, 24 December 2009; paperback ) * ''popCULT!'' (Pendragon Press, 31 March 2011, paperback ) * ''Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl'' (

Tor Books Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles. History Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, ...

, September 10, 2013, ) * ''Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon'' (

, September 16, 2014, ) * ''Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper'' (

, April 14, 2015, ) * ''The Handover'' (

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, April 29, 2021, ) * ''Alien: Colony War'' (

Titan Books Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment, which was established as Titan Books in 1981. The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cine ...

, April 26, 2022, ) * ''Withered Hill'' ( Canelo, September 26, 2024, )

Short stories

* ''The End of the World Show'' (

Postscripts ''Postscripts'' was a quarterly British magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction, first published in June 2004.

magazine, published Winter 2006) - giant lizards attacking Tokyo and asteroids and zombies. * ''Go'' (You Are Here, Redbeck Press, September 2006) - about the ghost of

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian ...

* ''It's Nice But I Wouldn't Want To Die Here'' (Visionary Tongue magazine, April 2006) * ''What Would Nite-Owl Do?'' (All Saints No Sinners Magazine, 2006) * ''State of Grace'' (Postscripts, PS Publishing, issue ten, Summer 2007) * ''Woman's Work'' (in Encounters of Sherlock Holmes,

, 2013)

Comics

Under the pen name "Sax", David Barnett wrote stories for two short story comics. Both featured the open-source character,

Jenny Everywhere Jenny Everywhere, also known as "The Shifter", is an open-source, freely licensed character, created by Canadian comic book artist Steven Wintle. The character was co-developed by members of the Barbelith online community. Jenny Everywhere was ...

. *
My Bloody Valentine
'' - Illustrated by John Miers (2002) *
The Death of Jenny Everywhere
' - Illustrated by Catherine Wright (2003)

References

External links

davidbarnett.wordpress.com
his official homepage
Immanion Press
publishers of Angelglass and Hinterland
Review of Hinterland
by the

Fortean Times ''Fortean Times'' is a British monthly magazine devoted to the anomalous phenomena popularised by Charles Fort. Previously published by John Brown Publishing (from 1991 to 2001), I Feel Good Publishing (from 2001 to 2005), Dennis Publishing (from ...

Interview with David Barnett
by The Alien Online
Interview with David Barnett
by the

Article on getting published by David Barnett
for The British Science Fiction Association's Matrix magazine

with

*
Story Behind Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl - Online Essay by David Barnett
1970 births English fantasy writers English male journalists 21st-century English novelists Living people People from Wigan English male short story writers English short story writers English male novelists 21st-century English short story writers 21st-century English male writers {{UK-novelist-stub