Some promotional items and material relating to Greenland's involvement with the Science Fiction Foundation is contained in our Offprints Collection.

Also, search the SF Catalogue for Colin Greenland's published works and related critical material.

Colin Greenland is a leading British writer and critic of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Dover in 1954, he wrote his first fantastic story aged just five and continued to write throughout his childhood. As a student at Pembroke College, Oxford, Greenland produced more stories but his first book was a work of criticism based on his PhD thesis entitled The Entropy Exhibition : Michael Moorcock and the UK 'New Wave'. Influenced by Moorcock, Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard, the main subjects of his thesis, Greenland published his own first novel, a fantasy titled Daybreak on a Different Mountain (1984).

Moving from Oxford to London, Greenland became Arts Council Writer in Residence at North East London Polytechnic, although he later admitted that his work in that period was 'arty and obscure.' Greenland revised his style, publishing two more fantasy novels, The Hour of the Thin Ox (1987) and Other Voices (1988), which display a quiet narrative style and a realistic, rather than mythical, basis. Greenland's next novel, Take Back Plenty (1990), signified a switch to science fiction with an entertaining space opera that is nonetheless intelligent. Amongst other stories and critical pieces, Greenland has since published Harm's Way (1993); two novels that complete the Tabitha Jute trilogy: Seasons of Plenty (1995) and Mother of Plenty; and Finding Helen (2003). His novels, which are typically strong on characterization, have gained such accolades as the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Award. In addition to writing, Greenland served on the editorial committee of Interzone, taught extra-murally at Birkbeck College, London and was for many years closely involved with the Science Fiction Foundation.