Fluence is published
Fluence is published today, 26 June, and available online in paperback and as an e-book from major retailers. There’s lots of information on my website, where you can browse the first few chapters,...
View ArticleTake a trip, with Fluence
It’s been a week since Fluence was published and it’s time to take it (and me) out on a trip. Over the next two weeks there’ll be an online book tour, which will take in 11 stops and feature a mix of...
View ArticleBoundaries
We stepped off the train and ran down into the deserted streets. We were searching for conFusion, the club that welcomed everyone. Boyd paused and studied the map on his phone. ‘We’re lost,’ I said....
View ArticleLaunch event for Fluence
Fluence was published just over a month ago and after a fortnight of interviews and reviews the official launch took place on 21 July in a packed Primrose Hill Community Library. I was really pleased...
View Articledetect deceit and delete
I came across these two stories last week – there’s an algorithm that can detect deceit in your social media feed and Twitter has been telling people they don’t exist. This led me to ponder what it...
View ArticleJodie has been deleted.
She walked with a limp, adding to the marks on the trim of her battered trainer each time she dragged her leg. Her shoulders were hunched and her head was bowed but, unlike everyone else with their...
View ArticleWho gets the baby girl?
The newly born girl lay in her mother’s arms, innocent and vulnerable. The man, the father, sat on a reclining chair pulled up close to the bed. ‘Anarchist. Techie. Commie,’ he said as he squeezed the...
View ArticleReading in the Clock Tower
Recently, I had the privilege of reading the first chapter of my latest novel, Fluence, at Novel London – a literary event with an intimate audience that’s held once a month in different venues around...
View ArticleLogical Love
The noise was deafening as the twenty-five couples clapped and shouted with relief. The weekend drinks party was over and they could finally relax. Well, until the algorithm delivered its verdict. A...
View ArticleCelebrity Car Crash
Screeching tires. Scraping metal. Karolina was shocked out of her doze. Car accidents were so unfamiliar that at first she didn’t recognise the ancient noise. It wasn’t until she saw the two cars to...
View ArticleA whole month of special features
I was very pleased to be the Special Featured Author during May for the fantastic b00kr3vi3s blog. Over the course of the month there were five different features, including an exclusive story...
View ArticleFluence is published
Fluence is published today, 26 June, and available online in paperback and as an e-book from major retailers. There’s lots of information on my website, where you can browse the first few chapters,...
View ArticleSpace Hermits
I’ve found them. The space hermits exist. I knew it. This detector might have cost me a lot of credits, but if I’m right it’s worth every degrading act I performed to afford it. You don’t want to know....
View ArticleEffort Less
‘Henry. You can tell a lot from someone’s footwear,’ his mother had been fond of saying. He stared at his feet, lost in thought about his parents’ prenatal decision to enhance him, the embryonic Henry,...
View ArticleCautionary Tools
I was struck recently by a piece in Nature: the international journal of science on what science fiction has to offer a world where technology and power structures are rapidly changing. As the headline...
View ArticleBodies, breeding, robots & work
Another Loving, Autonomous Agents, Boundless Bodies and Lasting Labour. What a wonderful mix of potential futures are wrapped up in the 2019 Virtual Futures’ Near-Future Fiction series and I’m very...
View ArticleStop the Dystopia, I Want To Get On
Dystopia sucks all hope away: Utopia give false hope. Which should we write, and is it a binary choice?
View ArticleImagine (and act) if you can.
There's a lot of talk at the moment about what the 'new normal' will look like. Well, who do you think will decide that?
View ArticleThe Right to ‘Opt Out’
A confident society should encourage people to opt out if they want to.
View ArticleStop the Dystopia, I Want to Get On.
The article I wrote for the Spring 2020 edition of the British Science Fiction Association magazine Focus is now available on Medium. It starts with the question: “Is it true that dystopias predict...
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