Monthly Archives: June 2016

So I’m hard at work on my novel, a big sci-fi story about AI and humanity in the future. I’m working on my reading list including a couple of books by Glyn Moody; one on the Internet – rebel code: … Continue reading →

I opened James Lovelock’s most recent book , A Rough Ride to the Future,with a prejudice. I had recently heard him assert that nuclear power plants were probably our best bet for the future. This amazing utterance came as I … Continue reading →

You may think of this post as a departure from the blog’s theme – a  look inside my writerly life – but a long time ago I was advised to put everything I had into what I write. I’m a … Continue reading →

I’m very careful about what I believe. I used to tell anyone who’d listen to my rantings that I believed nothing and they should too, but then I learned about Godel’s Theorem and was forced by the demands of logic … Continue reading →

The research for my new scifi book (working title is ‘Joe’) is taking me deep into the realm of science, to depths where the scientific imagination begins to bleed into scientific reality. People are working on some fantastic things that … Continue reading →

There’s a homework eating dog loose on the WordPress server and it ate one of my drafts. It was all about self-publishing and Digital Rights Managing. I’m going to rewrite and publish, soon. From now on I’m saving copies of … Continue reading →