Eddie Robson
Eddie Robson is a British writer with an extensive background in radio drama, television, and genre fiction. He has written for Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions — one of the most prolific and beloved ranges of licensed audio fiction in the world — as well as for British television. His work across multiple media has given him a strong command of plot mechanics, dialogue, and the particular demands of genre entertainment, all of which are evident in his prose fiction.
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words (2022), available on WritersReview, is his science fiction debut and was one of the most pleasantly surprising genre novels of its year. The novel is set in a near-future Earth where alien beings known as the Logi have established diplomatic relations with humanity, communicating through a form of emotional telepathy that their human translators must learn to process — a process that involves a form of overwhelming sensory experience that functions somewhat like intoxication. The novel’s protagonist, Lydia, is one such translator who becomes entangled in a murder mystery when her Logi charge is found dead. The book combines science fiction first-contact elements with a sharply observed workplace comedy and a genuinely effective mystery plot, and its voice — deadpan, dry, and very British — is one of its most appealing qualities.
Robson’s background in audio drama gives his fiction a particularly strong sense of voice and dialogue, and his novel demonstrates how generic forms — the locked-room mystery, the workplace comedy, the first-contact thriller — can be made fresh through the right combination of wit and invention. The premise of alien telepathy as a professional hazard in a diplomatic context is executed with considerable ingenuity, and the novel’s exploration of translation as a form of profound vulnerability gives it more emotional depth than its breezy, comic surface initially suggests.
He is based in the UK and continues to work across multiple formats, bringing the craft and efficiency of professional media writing to his fiction. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words marks him as a writer with a distinctive voice and a genuine gift for the kind of science fiction that uses genre premises to illuminate recognisably human situations — workplace politics, professional loyalty, the difficulty of communication across cultural difference — with wit, warmth, and considerable narrative skill.
