Submit a
novel.
Our fiction list is small and genuinely open. No agent required, and a reply within 30 days, which is unusual, and deliberate.
No agent required · No author fees · Initial response within 30 days
What we’re looking for
- Speculative and near-future fiction with a real idea at the centre
- Science fiction that takes its science seriously
- Intelligent thrillers where the premise does the work
- Novels that sit naturally beside the non-fiction we publish
- Complete manuscripts: fiction only, please, when it is finished
What we’re not
- Fiction with no connective tissue to the subjects we publish
- Partial manuscripts or early drafts
- Series proposals resting on an unwritten first book
Everything else in selected fiction, we genuinely want to see it.
Who writes these books: Novelists whose books ask a serious question about where the world is going.
Send it to us
Or email [email protected] with your title in the subject line
A covering note, a short synopsis and an opening sample is all we need to start. You keep every right in your work unless and until a publishing agreement is signed. Full guidelines if you’d like the detail first, and our synopsis guide if you are starting from scratch.
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