Aboriginal Studies Press in 1998. The book subsequently won the ACT Book of the Year Award and received praising reviews. His work has a strong sense of satire, across themes that include exploration, isolation, duality and Ned Kelly (who appears at least once in each of his eight short story collections). He has written and published, on average, one book a year since 1998, including collections of short fiction, novels and non-fiction. He has published scholarly articles on public attitudes to new technologies in publications including: NanoEthics, the International Journal of Biotechnology Agricultural Science, Historia Ciencias Saude (Brazil) and Choices (USA). He also authored the Australian Government reports, Cloning Goes to the Movies, and What you really need to know about what the public really thinks about GM foods. In 2008 he fulfilled "a life's dream" and travelled to Antarctica as an Antarctic Arts Fellow, visiting the three Australian stations on the continent, Casey, Davis and Mawson, publishing his experiences as In Bed with Douglas Mawson: Travels around Antarctica, in 2011, which merges his two interests of science and creative writing. In 2014 and 2015 he published the acclaimed the Shadow Master series with Angry Robot books, in the US and UK, as was a guest author at the Convergence fan convention in Minneapolis, and at WorldCon in Helsinki in 2018. In 2015 he also took part in the Yale Writers Conference. Writing awards 2022 Winner of the Special Book Award from 2020 as a part of the ACT Notable Awards 2022 for On A Barbarous Coast. 2022 – Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction Novella, The Cruise to the End of the World 2020 – Winner of the Roly Susses Short Story Prize for the Lost Journal of Edmund Kennedy. 2019 Winner of the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - non-fiction, for Backseat Drivers, 2018. 2019 - Shortlisted for the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - fiction for Years of the Wolf, 2018. 2019 Shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award, for Backseat Drivers, 2018. 2019 - Shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Book for Years of the Wolf, 2018. 2016 - Winner of the Tasmanian Writers' Prize 2016. 2015 – Winner of a Victorian Community History Award, for Ned Kelly under the Microscope, 2015. 2015 – Winner of the ACT Writing and Publishing Award for Uncle Adolf, 2015. 2010 – Shortlisted for the ACT