In a world of accelerating climate change and rising sea-levels, the new real estate is the bandwidth needed to run the feed, a post-Internet that everyone relies on and to which access determines whether a country is first or third-world. Real Man with a Troubled Past Dag Calhoun (yes, he really is called that) is […]

I’ll be performing another of my short science fiction pieces at Virtual Futures next Tuesday 12 March. This one is on the event’s theme of ‘Autonomous Agents’, and is called The Minus Four Sequence. The consequences of automation are a key concern for a society that is exporting much of its decision making to algorithms, automation and […]

A genuinely poetic exploration of how divisions of the self could mirror the operation of a true artificial intelligence. Blending psychology, mathematics and philosophy, this beautiful novel looks at the life and fate of World War 2 code-breaker Alec Pryor, a gay man who is chemically castrated and, it is hinted, commits suicide. It’s significant […]

I was looking forward to a bit of good fun YA escapism, and this starts well-enough in Bangkok with an androgynous young female Thai bodyguard in hock to the mob after using her Legacy (don’t call it a superpower!) to cheat at boxing. Unfortunately, we then transfer to the US and a tiresome school for […]

Virtual Futures’ Near-Future Fictions Salon on Tuesday 12 February in London saw my first ever short science fiction performance. I’ve wanted to create a piece like this for ages, because I can see an opportunity to explore both key SF issues and also the genre itself in a new way. We’re all familiar with SF […]