Graham Sleight

Hi. My name’s Graham Sleight; welcome to this site.

A brief biography. I was born in 1972, was mostly educated in and around London, and went to university here. After that, I found myself slowly becoming a publisher, mostly in the medical/mental health field. Like all publishers at the moment, I’ve also done a lot of online work. Right now, I work as Head of Web and Publications at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London.

This site is about what I do in the rest of my time: write about stories, mostly those found in science fiction and fantasy books. Among the things I do in that field are:

• I edit Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, a peer-reviewed journal that’s been published for nearly four decades.
• I write a regular column for Locus, the news magazine of the sf/f fields, on classic sf.
• I review for plenty of other places, in particular the New York Review of Science Fiction and Strange Horizons.
• I’ve just finished writing a couple of books – more details coming soon via the “Books” link on the right. The first of these is The Doctor’s Monsters.
• I write chapters in other peoples’ books – see “Book contributions” for a full list.
• I’m the managing editor for the new third edition of the Science Fiction Encyclopedia, edited by John Clute and David Langford.
• I’ve recently been writing a lot of introductions (along with Adam Roberts and Gwyneth Jones) for Gollancz’s SF Masterworks series.
• I give talks at conferences of various kinds. In 2010, for instance, I gave a paper to the Classical Association about the use of Greek and Roman myth in Doctor Who.
• I occasionally get put in front of a microphone or camera to talk about all of the above. I’ve appeared on BBC Radio 3′s Night Waves, Radio 4′s Open Book, and on various podcasts. A recent appearance (albeit with a few technical glitches) was on the New York station WBAI’s Hour of the Wolf.

In the past, I’ve also been a judge for the Clarke Award and written a column for the British SF Association‘s critical journal Vector. For the last couple of years, I’ve been part of the judging panel for the Crawford Award. I go to conferences and conventions in the field: you can usually find me at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida in March; Readercon in Boston in July; and the movable feast that is the UK’s Eastercon.

I can be found online in several other places, including:

• At the Locus Roundtable – where I blog about sf/f stuff.
• Facebook – which I tend to use to keep track of people I’ve met in person; given my vague memory, if you send me a friend request having met me at a con, you might want to accompany it with a message reminding me when and where we spoke.
• Linkedin – which I tend to use for stuff connected to my day-job.

I also, slightly worryingly, have a Wikipedia entry. My surname rhymes with “kite” not “Kate”.