About Linda Bishop

Linda Bishop, author of This Time We Lose

Teacher turned novelist.

Linda Bishop is a British author living on Spain's Costa Blanca, in the town of Xàbia (Jávea). She writes dystopian fiction that takes today's headlines and follows them to their uncomfortable conclusions.

This Time We Lose is her debut novel and the first book in The Magera Chronicles. She started writing it in 2019. By the time she finished, the real world had started catching up with her fiction.

She taught for thirty years before turning to writing full-time. These days, she splits her time between the next book, the coastal paths around Jávea, and keeping one eye on what the AI companies are up to.

The Writing Journey

How a career in education led to a dystopian thriller

Linda started writing This Time We Lose after thirty years in education. She'd spent her career watching young people worry about the future. Climate change, artificial intelligence, what kind of world they'd inherit. The question that wouldn't leave her alone was this: what if we solve the survival problem but lose everything else? What if we build a future so controlled, so managed for efficiency, that no one even remembers what it felt like to be free?

That question became this novel. A story about three friends who begin to see the cracks in a system that was supposed to save humanity. A story about choosing your own future, even when the cost is everything.

When Linda started writing in 2019, these themes felt safely fictional. Climate collapse was a slow-moving threat. AI was advancing but still limited. Isolation was possible but unusual. By the time she finished, reality had closed the gap. This Time We Lose is the book she wishes someone had written five years ago.

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