Simon Sellars is a writer, publisher and editor based in Melbourne, Australia. In 2018, his ‘theory-fiction’ novel, Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe, was published by Urbanomic. The Guardian called it ‘a brilliantly written genre mashup, a wonderfully original mix of cultural theory, literary exegesis, travelogue and psychopathological memoir’. Applied Ballardianism has been published in Spanish and Slovenian.
In 2023, his second novel, Code Beast, was published. In 2025, Code Beast will be published in Spanish and Greek.
Simon also writes for websites, magazines, newspapers and journals. Recurring themes include digital culture, architecture, travel, urbanism, film, animation, music, sound design and literature.
Simon is the former publisher of Ballardian.com and the co-editor of Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard (2012), a Guardian Book of the Year.
In 2023, he founded Wanton Sun, a small press that publishes science fiction, New Weird Fiction and horror.