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Hi, I'm Piers Beckley and this is my website.

Here you can find information about my latest books, plus various other pieces of writing I've done over the years.

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News Writing

Newsletter

 October 14, 2025

Now that I’ve started publishing The Swords of Antona in helpful bite-size pieces (with a military SF novel on the way) I thought it would be a good idea to start a newsletter. The idea being that it’s a not-very often email…

Theatre

Putting on one of my plays

 September 8, 2025

Occasionally I get contacted by an amateur dramatics company or school about performing one of my plays. (To be honest, it’s usually A Christmas Carol. It’s not a seasonal staple for nothing, you know…) Previously I’ve always dealt with this on a…

Miscellaneous News

Shiny!

 August 31, 2025

As you might have noticed, I’ve had a bit of a clearout. 🙂 Over the long, long years the site had accumulated a lot of posts which, quite frankly, weren’t doing any useful business any more. You don’t really need to know…

Books

The Crystal Sword

 August 21, 2025

So I have a new novella out. It’s called The Crystal Sword and is the first in a new series in the genre of what used to be known as Planetary Romance (or sometimes Sword & Planet) – a genre which features…

News

I Aten’t Dead

 August 19, 2025

[cough] [cough] Oh dear. The state of this place. I suppose I owe you an update. I accidentally got a full-time dayjob, and then another one, and the writing and blogging and websiting and all of the creative things that I loved…

Books News

Into The Dark

 August 12, 2023

[blows dust off the blog] Well. Hello. Been a while since I’ve powered this thing up. I’ve got a new book out. It’s called Into The Dark and is a collection of science fiction / horror short stories. About 28,000 words of…

Politics

The Memory Hole

 September 27, 2022

The last few times I’ve spoken with my dad about politics, we’ve talked about the politics of nationalisation vs privatisation. My feelings on this matter are that anything to do with infrastructure should be under the former; anything else, well, fill your…

Pandemic

Beating Covid-19

 March 14, 2020

Covid-19 is what’s known as a novel coronavirus. Novel as in we’ve never encountered it before, and coronavirus being a specific type of virus. It’s called that because its shape makes it look like a bit like it has crowns on it.…