To celebrate the Humble Bookperk Bundle (ten plus books, including Twinmaker! DRM free! charity! bonus copy of Metal Fatigue!) and my new toy (a beautiful RØDE podcaster, pictured below) here’s a recording of me reading the very first Twinmaker urban myth, a version of the traditional body-horror matter-transmitter yarn (that you can read the full […]
Once upon a time, I wrote a novel about d-mat. I’m not talking about Twinmaker. This was a crime thriller set in the future, concerning a cop whose ex-BF is the main suspect in a series of nasty murders. Someone has hacked the network to create copies of people. When the copies are killed, the […]
Trigger warning: suicide. (Some would argue that every d-mat story is triggering . . .) People commit suicide using d-mat all the time. Or at least, they try to. In theory it should be easy: just step into a booth and send yourself nowhere. But what does “nowhere” mean? Data doesn’t vanish just because it […]
It’s official! I am now Dr Sean Williams, expert in fictional matter transmitters and Affiliate of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide. My exegesis will be available electronically through the academic library system, but the creative component will be embargoed for a bit. I do, however, have the two […]