About the Author

• a Stasi and SED (East German Communist Party) files archivist – mostly evaluating and processing records of the opposition movements in the GDR as well as security issues on the Berlin Wall;
• a co-operative development worker;
• and a book seller.

• Max is currently working on several climate fiction ideas, trying to decide which to prioritise.
• Meanwhile, he’s also expanding the Cold War Lieutenant Reim series of spy and crime fiction,  which starts in 1983. The novels are narrated by our eponymous anti-hero, a junior officer in the Stasi.

• The East Berlin Series of proto-utopian fiction set in a GDR that didn’t disappear in 1990.
• Cold Island, set in the near future of a post-Brexit UK, seeing the changes through the eyes of an EU citizen who has lived most of her life in Britain.
• With Seeds for Change Co-operative, he co-wrote A Consensus Handbook and How To Set Up A Workers’ Co-op.

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