About Max
Max Niels is the nom de plume of a UK-based emergency medicine doctor and speculative fiction writer whose creative work merges science, realism, and human resilience. Drawing on years spent in the chaos of emergency departments, Max writes with emotional authenticity and surgical precision, exploring the fragile balance between order and entropy in both medicine and society. His nonfiction reveals the hidden realities of modern healthcare, while his fiction constructs entire worlds from the remnants of collapse, blending grounded science with human ambition to imagine hauntingly plausible futures.
In his storytelling, Max’s voice is disciplined yet deeply visual, often brooding, reflective, and quietly philosophical. His projects, from We Do Not Say “Quiet” to the dystopian Terra Nulla Bella series, share a common thread: the collision of humanity, technology, and survival. His style feels lived-in: tactile, atmospheric, and emotionally intelligent, combining medical precision with lyrical restraint. Rather than glorifying disaster, his narratives dissect the anatomy of endurance and explore how individuals rediscover meaning when systems fail.
