Stephen Ford, retired from a career in information technology, is now an author, with No Free Speech for Hate being his fourth published novel.
The son of a geologist, he had a varied and nomadic childhood in Africa and the Middle East. Since childhood, Stephen has been inspired by wild places, mountains, rivers and forests—places where nature reigns, not people.
Now inspired to write, Stephen explores these themes: What forces shape human society? What is the future of humanity? Is human development driven by reason and logic, or are reason and logic mere tools used to justify people’s choices?
A few years from now the United Kingdom has broken up, the monarchy abolished, and English society is dominated by the universities, new centres of power in the land, a power as great as the medieval Church and suppressing heresy against the new woke creed as zealously as Stalin’s secret police, d...
A deadly Chimapox pandemic has forced the country into lockdown, enforced by zealous vigilante volunteers. Jim exiled back to England to stay with his uncle and aunt after years in Vietnam, after finding employment with the Vestral corporation and finding his own lodgings must now contend with his i...