Chris Beckett is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and two novels.
Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1977), a CQSW from the University of Wales (1981), a Diploma in Advanced Social Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1977), and an MA in English Studies from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (2005). He has been a senior lecturer in social work at APU since 2000. He was social worker for eight years and the manager of a children and families social work team for ten years. Beckett has authored or co-authored several textbooks and scholarly articles on social work.
"Watching the Sea" ... originally published in Interzone (2001)
"Marcher" ... originally published in Interzone (2001); republished in Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
"Snapshots of Apirania" ... originally published in Interzone (2000)
"The Welfare Man Retires" ... originally published in Interzone (2000)
"The Gates of Troy" ... originally published in Interzone (2000)
"The Marriage of Sky and Sea" ... originally published in Interzone (2000); republished in Year's Best SF 6 (2001)
"Valour" ... originally published in Interzone (1999); republished in Year's Best SF 5 (2000)
"The Warrior Half-and-Half" ... originally published in Interzone (1995); republished in Year's Best SF 5 (2000); republished in The Ant Men of Tibet, edited by David Pringle, Big Engine Books (2001)
"Jazamine in the Green Wood" ... originally published in Interzone (1994)
"The Welfare Man" ... originally published in Interzone (1993); republished in The Best of Interzone, edited by David Pringle, Voyager (HarperCollins) (1997); truncated version published in Health and Disease: a Reader, Open University Press (1995)
"The Circle of Stones" ... originally published in Interzone (1992)
"The Long Journey of Frozen Heart" ... originally published in Interzone (1991)
"La Macchina" ... originally published in Interzone (1991); republished in Ninth Annual Collection (1992); republished in Gedanken Fictions: Stories on Themes in Science, Technology and Society, edited by Thomas Easton, Wildside Press (2000); republished in Robots (2005)
"A Matter of Survival" ... originally published in Interzone (1990)
Textbooks
Essential Theory for Social Work Practice, Sage, 2006
Values and Ethics in Social Work: An Introduction, Sage, 2005 (co-written with Andrew Maynard)
Social Work Assessment and Intervention in Social Work, Russell House, 2003 (co-written with Steven Walker)
Child Protection: An Introduction, Sage, 2003; 2nd Edition, 2007