Joe Gillespie is a retired graphic designer who is now based in Bristol. Since retiring he has focused on a number of creative and artistic projects, including three science fiction novels each with their own unique tangent and flavour. Having spent his life working in graphic design and having won two awards for his work in advertising in the 1980s, Joe has a long history of producing resourceful and inventive excellence, which is exemplified in the way he melds different worlds together in his novels. His love of nature and animals makes him passionate about the impact and welfare of both these creatures and humans in a general sense.

A woman is pulled into the sky by a vicious alien life form at a village fete and it is captured on camera for the first time. So here begins Joe Gillespie's third novel Exopod, and it progresses as an exhilarating voyage through consistently vivid attacks and modern science. As expected, Gillespie's narrative is rooted in the relationship between humanity and outer space, but the detail and imagination with which he writes about the elements of both ensures that the pace is unswerving and the depth at which humans interact with each other is always relatable. Exopod uses a back-to-basics and down-to-earth sensibility to create perennially intriguing and gripping reading. - Review by Jack Mckeever

Joe Gillespie is a retired graphic designer who is now based in Bristol. Since retiring he has focused on a number of creative and artistic projects, including three science fiction novels each with their own unique tangent and flavour. Having spent his life working in graphic design and having won two awards for his work in advertising in the 1980s, Joe has a long history of producing resourceful and inventive excellence, which is exemplified in the way he melds different worlds together in his novels. His love of nature and animals makes him passionate about the impact and welfare of both these creatures and humans in a general sense.

A woman is pulled into the sky by a vicious alien life form at a village fete and it is captured on camera for the first time. So here begins Joe Gillespie's third novel Exopod, and it progresses as an exhilarating voyage through consistently vivid attacks and modern science. As expected, Gillespie's narrative is rooted in the relationship between humanity and outer space, but the detail and imagination with which he writes about the elements of both ensures that the pace is unswerving and the depth at which humans interact with each other is always relatable. Exopod uses a back-to-basics and down-to-earth sensibility to create perennially intriguing and gripping reading. - Review by Jack Mckeever

Joe Gillespie is a retired graphic designer who is now based in Bristol. Since retiring he has focused on a number of creative and artistic projects, including three science fiction novels each with their own unique tangent and flavour. Having spent his life working in graphic design and having won two awards for his work in advertising in the 1980s, Joe has a long history of producing resourceful and inventive excellence, which is exemplified in the way he melds different worlds together in his novels. His love of nature and animals makes him passionate about the impact and welfare of both these creatures and humans in a general sense.

A woman is pulled into the sky by a vicious alien life form at a village fete and it is captured on camera for the first time. So here begins Joe Gillespie's third novel Exopod, and it progresses as an exhilarating voyage through consistently vivid attacks and modern science. As expected, Gillespie's narrative is rooted in the relationship between humanity and outer space, but the detail and imagination with which he writes about the elements of both ensures that the pace is unswerving and the depth at which humans interact with each other is always relatable. Exopod uses a back-to-basics and down-to-earth sensibility to create perennially intriguing and gripping reading. - Review by Jack Mckeever