He is currently leading the Creative Futures project, a funded research partnership between Coventry University and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Stroud later returned to Winchester, completing a Ph.D. in 2017 titled An Investigation and Application of Writing Structures and World Development Techniques in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

[4] He also became a founding and continuing host of Lave Radio, a free podcast related to Elite: Dangerous that started in February 2013.

Baen Books Editor David Afshariad selected this for the 2017 edition of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF.

This is an anthology published to commemorate the 100th birthday of the late Arthur C. Clarke and features work by Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Peter Hamilton, Stephen Baxter (author), Alastair Reynolds and Pat Cadigan amongst others.