Speculative Fiction

An Author of Altered Realities

I write speculative fiction that grows out of a career spent designing, analysing, and researching the complex systems that shape human behaviour. Drawing on work across psychology, games, and large-scale human–machine systems, my fiction explores how people adapt, misalign, and find meaning inside constructed worlds.

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Writing & Worlds

Selected writing, world building, experimental work

Short stories and longer works set inside imagined systems and altered realities, focused on people navigating uncertainty, constraint, and change.

The structures behind the stories: environments, technologies, and rules that shape the MIND world and its inhabitants.

The Writer

I am Hazel Bradshaw. My fiction writing grew out of academic and professional work investigating technology, systems, human behaviour, and game-world development. A doctorate in Human Interface Technology underpins that work, grounding a long-standing curiosity about how designed worlds shape the people inside them—questions I continue to explore through fiction.

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Behind the Fiction

The research, talks, and published work sitting behind the MIND world fiction.

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