Elliott, Laura

Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.

(? - ) UK disability campaigner, journalist and author, active from around 2010. Her first novel, the Near-Future Awakened (2025), is set in a Dystopian London where the Invention of a neural chip designed to eliminate the need for sleep has created Monsters instead of an exploitable work force, as intended. Gothic SF elements govern the climax of the tale.

Elliott should not be confused with the Irish novelist Laura Elliot. [JC]