Andy Remic is a UK

United Kingdom

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 born author of thrillers, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and military science fiction

Military science fiction

Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the principal characters are members of a military service and an armed conflict is taking place, normally in space, or on a planet other than Earth...

. His first three novels, Spiral (2003), Quake (2004) and Warhead (2005) were published by Orbit Books

Orbit Books

Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books. It was founded in 1974 as part of the Macdonald Futura publishing company...

 (a former division of Little, Brown & Co). His fourth novel War Machine was published in 2007 by Solaris Books

Solaris Books

Solaris Books is an imprint which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy novels and anthologies. The range includes titles by both established and new authors...

, which were then followed by BioHell, Hardcore and Cloneworld, also in the Combat K universe.

Born in North Manchester

Manchester

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, he is married with two children. He is a former English teacher, but now writes full-time. He occasionally visits science fiction conventions, as was seen at Novacon

Novacon

Novacon is an annual science fiction convention, usually held each November in the West Midlands, UK. It is now the annual convention of the Birmingham Science Fiction Group.-History:...

 37 where he did a reading from his new novel followed by Q&A, and was on a panel with Charles Stross

Charles Stross

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction, Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. He was born in Leeds.Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera...

, Eric Brown and Ian Watson

Ian Watson

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.

Books

Remic is the author of the Combat-K series of military science fiction for SOLARIS Books.

He also wrote the SPIRAL series of novels for ORBIT Books.

He also currently writes fast=paced fantasy novels in the style of David Gemmell, for Angry Robot Books. These are the Clockwork Vampire Chronicles, beginning with KELL'S LEGEND, SOUL STEALERS and the upcoming VAMPIRE WARLORDS.

Film-making

Andy writes and occasionally acts in films for independent film company Grunge films, based in the UK. He has made films promos for novels KELL'S LEGEND and HARDCORE, and a short film CHEMICAL MAN which has been accepted into several film festivals internationally.

Computer games

Andy Remic wrote a number of computer games, including several text adventures, for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

 in the 1980s and early 1990s. Some of these appeared on the cover-mounted cassettes that accompanied Crash (magazine)

CRASH (magazine)

Crash was a magazine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was published from 1984 to 1991 by Newsfield Publications Ltd until their liquidation, and then until 1992 by Europress.-Development:...

, and others were sold by mail order. Many of his games were produced under the name 'Psychedelic Hedgehog Software'.

Remic revisited his Spectrum past in 2009 when he created a graphical text adventure to accompany his new novel, Biohell.

Publishing

In 2011 Andy started his own ebook publishing company, ANARCHY BOOKS, dealing with digital "projects" that contain novels, albums, video games and films, so that any entertainment junkie can "pick and mix" their experience.

External links

• andyremic.com (official website)
• http://anarchy-books.com/ (Anarchy Books official website)
• Andy Remic interview at SFX
  SFX magazine
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• Andy Remic ZX-Spectrum games at WOS
• Andy Remic interview at Punktalk