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Victoria Hayward
A historian by training and a science communicator by day, this British writer brings a sharp eye for big ideas to her fiction. Her stories range from Warhammer 40,000 adventures to shorter speculative works and scripts.
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Romantic Canada
by Victoria Hayward
About the author
She is a UK-based author with a background in history, and she also works in science communication, helping academics share their research more clearly. That mix of historical curiosity and accessible storytelling shows up across her work.
Her fiction includes writing for Black Library, where she has published works such as The Carbis Incident, The Siege of Ismyr, and the Warhammer 40,000 novel Deathworlder. Beyond novels and short fiction, her publication record also includes scripts, articles, and a contribution to the anthology Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine.
Across interviews and author bios, she comes across as a writer drawn to imaginative worlds, science, and the strange edges of human experience. It gives her work an energetic blend of speculative adventure and thoughtful worldbuilding.