David Gullen

@dergullen.bsky.social

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SFF writer, poet, editor, leather crafter, gardener. Milford SF Conference co-organiser, 5K Your Way Ambassador 2024 Nonsuch Parkrunner of the Year Winning battles, losing the war.

Snowy River hat and reading glasses on a round rusted blue lamp.
A shelf of books, magazines, and journals I have work in, edited, or have written.
Canterbury bells / Campanula medium.
A Short Sunderland flying boat.
Old fart on a hospital trolley making stupid devil signs with fingers.
Bronze sword & black leather scabbard.
Bronze leaf-bladed sword.
Mesembryanthemum daisies.
Mesembryanthemum, or Livingstone daisy, pink with a white heart.
A Dicksonia antarctica tree fern throwing a new set of fronds.
Red flowered Amarylis.
A pot of small, bright pink flowered succulents.
Top down view of large pastel yellow cactus flower.
Unfurling crozier of Dicksonia antarctica, surrounded by lush green fronds.
The poem 'Go Gently', from 'Guru Meditation', my collaborative collection with Gaie Sebold.
Children at a a Russian military barracks run down a road in full NBC kit during simulation of a biochemical attack. 1999.
A cluster of purple, and purple white striped crocus.
Cover of Saint Julian album, by Julian Cope.
Hawk wind album cover.
Me in a hospital bed, wearing a nebuliser.
An open box of 36 Tunnocks tea cakes.
A poster of the animated film The Sea Beast.
Fossil dragon eggs.
A Smash robot holding a pen, stands on a notebook where it has written "Once upon a time..."
Boxed AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6 core, 12 thread processor, 4.7/5.3 GHz, 38 Mb cache.
A large green frog.
Line art of a lobster overlaid with text reading "Respect the Moose".
Front & rear cover of Guru Meditation, a book of poetry & short stories. All profits to cancer research.
Filmy ferns growing on a vertical surface.
A tree fern.
A five line poem, titled 'Jewels'. When I lie down and look straight up Past rough boughs, past lime green leaves Bathed by dappled light in dappled shade I wonder if the sun is pleased With all the life its light has made.
Conan the Barbarian answers the question "What is best in life?" with "To have a good night's sleep, then wake without pain, and to have a big poo."
Reviews & praise for Guru Meditation, a book of poems & SFF short stories.
Cover of SF novel Shopocalypse, along with story blurb and a recommendation from Mike Carey.