I’m a writer, illustrator and philosopher who lives in South Wales in the UK. Here you’ll find my weekly sci-fi serial Tidelands, book reviews, and posts on philosophy and indie publishing.

Sci-Fi

Tidelands is a far-future sci-fi series, instalments from which are emailed to your inbox weekly, and can be read in your browser or via the Substack app. Part 1 is free to read.

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Other book projects will follow in due course.

Philosophy

The Ramble represents my occasional musings on things that interest me philosophically – technology, art, science, religion, the facial hair of the great philosophers…

There are also plans for serialised non-fiction at some point.

Publishing

All Things Independent is a series of occasional articles that covers all things indie publishing. From formatting your book, to creating a cover, choosing a publishing platform, marketing and advertising, getting into libraries and bookshops – I share my free lessons, tips, mistakes and (mis)adventures from my years as a writer, professional illustrator and book designer.

Book Reviews

The Speculative Book Club reviews all things science-fictional, fantastical, philosophical and speculative, as well as graphic novels, books about writing, creativity, technology, and whatever else takes my fancy.

More About Me

I’ve been involved with philosophy for over thirty years, I’m the author of numerous books on the subject, and I’ve a PhD on the topic of “death” (which has been read by exactly four people, including myself). Below are a selection. You can see more here.

I also write sci-fi (see some titles below), and my novels are just a thinly fictionalised version of my PhD thesis, with most of the boring bits taken out and replaced with robots and people swearing in Welsh. You can view them all here.

Aside from that, I design and illustrate books for a living. You can see more examples of my work (and hire me) on Reedsy.

All fiction (and some philosophy) books are published through WoodPig Press.

If so inclined, you can also connect and chat with me on BlueSky.


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Gareth Southwell is a writer of philosophy books, a sci-fi author, and a professional illustrator and book designer.