John Francis Keane

John F Keane is a long-serving member of the BSFA (British Sci-Fi Association) and has published both prose and poetry in a number of science fiction magazines, including Analog. In an academic capacity, he has written about the social prototyping potential of science fiction in such prestigious management journals as Emergence and The International Journal of Advertising. His paper "Literary Praxiphorical Analysis: Using Science Fiction and Fantasy to Shape Organizational Futures" (2014), co-authored with Professors Bernard Burnes and Gary Graham and published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (84), is considered a classic of its kind.

He is currently working on the Altrisian series, a trilogy of novels about an ancient super race with the power to manipulate destiny across vast spans of space and time. He is also developing a novella describing an alternate timeline in which photography was discovered in prehistory. Lonely Ways, a collection of his shorter speculative fiction, is available on Amazon both as an ebook and as a paperback.

He resides in Manchester (the UK version) and is an active member of the South Manchester Writers' Workshop. His hobbies include chess, Sudoku puzzles, crosswords, and horticulture. Follow him on twitter at @JohnFKeane2.