The Guardian of the Grain (original: Learning Monkey and Crocodile, 2019.)
A Million Reasons Why in Learning Monkey and Crocodile, 2019.
Beautiful Meat in Learning Monkey and Crocodile, 2019.

• Five Hundred Photons. 365 Tomorrows (2017).
• Dream-Hunter in Omenana (2016)
• Thandiwe’s Tokoloshe in African Monsters (2015) – reviewed variously including Storyological
• The Paragon of Knowledge in The Future Fire (2015)
• The Last Pantheon (with Tade Thompson – Nigeria) in AfroSF Vol. 2 (2015)
• The Girl Who Called the World (Feb 2014) in ‘Fierce Families’ (QUILTBAG) anthology and The Museum of All Things Awesome and That Go Boom (2016)
• Case notes of a witchdoctor published in The World SF Blog (March 2013)
• Azania published in AfroSF (December 2012) and reprinted (2015): ‘How to Live On Other Planets’

Other published short stories of note:

• “Bridges” – Second Prize Aeon International Award; Albedo One 40, September 2011
• “Lunar Voices (on the Solar Wind)” Redstone Science Fiction Number 4, September 2010
• “Of Hearts and Monkeys” PostScripts Magazine 22/23, PS Publishing 2010, ISBN: 978-1-848630-49-9
• “Thirstlands“, “Subterfuge”, NewCon Press, 2008
  To read “Thirstlands” click here.
• “Mindreader”, Finalist (Top 10) General section, Nova SFSA Awards
  2007, Published – Escape Velocity magazine February 2008
• “Thirstlands”, Finalist (Top 10) South African section, Nova SFSA Awards 2007
  Also Honorary Mention Writers of the Future Contest; ; last quarter, 2007
• “Mosi-oa-Tunya”, Finalist in South African section, Nova SFSA Awards 2006.
• “Thandiwe’s Rainbow”, Probe Issue 131, August 2006
• “Thandiwe’s Rainbow”, placed 3rd in South African section, Nova SFSA Awards 2005.
• “Ancestral Steps”, placed 4th in South African section, Nova SFSA Awards 2004.
• “African Shadows”, Infinity Plus Sep 2003.
• “God in the Box”, Interzone 187, March 2003.
• “A Township Metamorphosis”, Probe Issue 103, July 1997
• “African Shadows”, Scheherazade – Issue 18, 1996.
• “Martian Madness”, Probe Issue 94, July 1994.
• “Encounter”, Works 8, ISSN 0954-3902, 1992.
• “Thoughts of a soldier on a dying planet”, Works 7, ISSN 0954-3902, 1991.
• “The B.E.M. from Outer Space”, Probe Issue 79, March 1990.
• “The minds of man”, Probe, 1977.

Probe is the South African science fiction society’s magazine. The UK publications in which Nick’s short fiction have appeared are Works a UK magazine of “slipstream” fiction, Scheherazade a magazine of fantasy, science fiction and gothic romance, the ezine Infinity Plus and the sf/fantasy magazine Interzone.

“God in the Box” was translated into French and published in the Utopiales anthology in 2003. To read the God in the Box as published in Interzone 187 in 2003 click here or to read the Tangent review of “God in the Box” click here. Nick’s stories have both won and been among the runners-up in the annual Science Fiction South Africa’s short story competition.

To read The Guardian review click here and to read the Strange Horizons review click here.