Welcome to Matt Colborn’s official web page. Matt is an author, lecturer and podcaster. His academic field is consciousness studies and cognitive science. Matt has written on such diverse topics as consciousness, science fiction, space art, the environment and the future.

Matt’s first nonfiction book, Pluralism and the Mind, was published in 2011. His first collection of Science Fiction short stories was reprinted in an expanded edition in 2021.

His latest nonfiction book, What Lies Beyond was published in May 2025 and is now available for order. Check out the What Lies Beyond podcast on Substack.

For a more detailed guide to Matt’s work, and where to find things, check out the topics page.