ENGINEER. NOVELIST.
Richard Oswestry is a novelist and engineer whose writing explores human choice, consequence, memory, technology and the things people leave behind.
His stories move between speculative fiction, historical fiction, contemporary drama and stories rooted in ordinary lives. The subjects may change, but the underlying question remains much the same:
Engineering taught Oswestry to begin with first principles.
Understand the problem.
Question the assumptions.
Look at what is actually there.
Then work out what happens next.
Writing came from a different place.
Some stories simply refuse to go away.
They stay in your thoughts, sometimes for years, until eventually they need to be written.
The books range from questions about artificial intelligence and human intent to stories of memory, loss, inheritance, history and responsibility.
Some are large in scope.
Others begin with something very small — an object, a conversation, a decision, a memory.
But they share an interest in ordinary people facing extraordinary consequences.
The books are not intended to form a single genre or follow a single formula.
They are simply stories that needed to be written.
The reader is invited to decide what they mean.