H B Viegas is a new writer of speculative fiction including sci-fi, cli-fi and feminist stories.
She’s currently looking for the best way to publish her work. If you’re an agent or publishing house, get in touch. If you’re a reader, hang in there, self-publishing is an option too.
“A sweeping, ambitious and very timely novel. It is a frighteningly believable vision of the future and I was gripped from the very beginning.”
— Victoria Hislop
The Seed Vault
“Highly commended” by the Bridport Prize, First Novel Award
Set in a near future when New Food is our only chance of survival, in a group of Nordic islands ruled by an advanced software algorithm, this is the story of a girl who disappears from the nation’s digital records and of the cynical private detective tasked with finding her. All clues lead to a secret research project in the Svalbard seed vault. An immersive Scandi-noir, sci-fi mystery novel.
Valeria is an Alien
A black comedy about the end of gender. In a near-future London, the influencer and troublemaker Valeria Primera is arrested on live TV, and whisked away to a lab. One reasonable man comes out in Valeria’s defence, to tell us her extraordinary story. How did this woman become a symbol for her gender, and is she really an alien?
Hidden Planets
Millions of years after Earth’s collapse, a neurodivergent human (Juniper) and her faithful, sentient spaceship (Yolk) follow an interstellar travel plan finding a new home for the human diaspora. Candidate planets display signatures suggesting complex life and a suitable atmosphere, but it’s hard to predict what they’ll find at the surface. From planet to planet, Juniper and Yolk uncover clues to a fantastic discovery.
Fox is Female
London, 2010. A nurse retired from a family planning practice receives an unexpected gift in the post, precipitating a series of disturbing events. Over several decades spanning present, past and future, the stories of three women unfold, including a dark secret that comes to haunt the nurse. A highly unusual novel about abortion and politics, at the intersection of literary, historical and speculative fiction.
