Laughs in Space
Donna Scott is an established science-fiction editor, who recently won the BSFA Award for Best Collection for The Best of British Science Fiction 2022. She just so happens to be a stand-up comedian too - an Old Comedian of the Year finalist, Some Antics Comedy finalist, and part of the multi-award-winning cast of The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen and has performed comedy at numerous science-fiction conventions over the years. With Laughs in Space, Donna looked for incisive science-fiction stories from the cream of the genre's contemporary authors, but with a funny twist. Stories that are funny, quirky, eyebrow-raising and heartwarming - or bleak and sweary if that's more your thing.
Read stories about tech going wrong; broken spaceships; alien housemates; the tribulations of dating outside one's species, and the odd chicken. I mean really odd. There is black humour, there's absurdism, clever funny, silly funny - all kinds of funny!
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Donna Scott
Originally from the Black Country, Donna Scott now lives in a Victorian shoemaker's house in Northampton.
As a performance poet, she became the first official Bard of Northampton for a year in 2009.
Since 2016, Donna has been the editor of the Newcon Press Best of British Science Fiction anthology series.
As well as writing fiction, Donna has been performing comedy for a number of years and has written several solo shows. She is part of sketch duo Prison Biscuit and the multiple-award winning children's comedy group The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen.