Val Nolan

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Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Vol. 1 // Co-written with Tiffani Angus (Luna Press, 2023) // Shortlisted for the BSFA Awards and The British Fantasy Awards

Spec Fic For Newbies: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Vol. 2 // Co-written with Tiffani Angus (Luna Press, 2024)

Neil Jordan: Works for the Page (Cork University Press, 2022)

'Thirteen Ways of Looking at Airside by Christopher Priest: Val Nolan on the genre-defying literary maestro’s final novel' // Interzone Digital (2024)

Mike McCormack’s Notes from a Coma: `The First Great 21st-Century Irish Novel' // Irish Times (2016)

'Science Fiction and the Pathways out of the COVID Crisis' // The Polyphony (2021) // Shortlisted for the BSFA Awards

The Big Idea: Why We Wrote Spec Fic for Newbies 2 // John Scalzi's Blog (2024)

'The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle: Paula Spencer gets to the Dark Heart of an Ireland that Hides Behind Jokes' // Irish Times (2024)

'Nostalgia for Infinity: Hard Determinism and Hard Science in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space Sequence' // Science Fiction Studies (2019)

Break Free: Understanding, Reimagining, and Reclaiming Stories in Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers of Victory' // Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2015)

'"A New Persistent Cough": The Coronavirus, Hyperobjects, and the Pandemic Aesthetic' // symploke (2023)

'"If it was just th'oul book …": A History of the McGahern Banning Controversy' // Irish Studies Review (2011)

My Blog: Illusory Promise