Sci-Fi Ireland team

Sci-Fi Ireland is brought to you by Editor-in-Chief Mark Mullan and Lead Editor Alex Johnston. We met while studying our MA in creative writing at Queens University Belfast and bonded over a shared love of anything nerdy we could sink our teeth into.

From Vonnegut, Le Guinn on through Thursday Next and Ashely Stokes to our one true lord and saviour Douglas Adams; we’ve sat in a dimly lit pub discussing, debating and otherwise bathing in the warm glow of sci-fi genius. Now we've joined forces to create a magazine and we hope you'll join us for the ride.

Mark Mullan

Founder, Editor (and idiot) in Chief

Mark Mullan is an Irish writer born, raised - and after a ten-year sojourn around the world - living once more in Belfast. He studied his MA in creative writing at Queens University and also has a master’s degree in chiropractic with which he keeps a roof over his and Benji’s heads. Benji is a Yucca plant and an accidental bonsai tree.

Mark has been published in The Apiary, The Blackbird and commissioned for radio by the BBC Storytellers project. His great writing passion is science-fiction, specifically that which interrogates the technologies of the now and near future through a comedic lens. His favourite authors are Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin and Douglas Adams.

Alex Johnston

Lead Editor (and Interplanetary Wotsit Inspector)

Alex Johnston is a writer from a land down under now locked into Belfast for the long haul having completed his MA in creative writing at Queen's University. His favourite authors are Jasper Fforde and Ursula Le Guin, and like them he looks to merge different genres and concepts, taking great delight in seeing what weird and wonderful mixes occur as a result.

He actually despises long walks on the beach because of all the sand-squeak underfoot. In his downtime you can find him strolling around parklands looking for wotsits.

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