There have been a couple of videos doing the rounds about how matter transmitters are murder machines because of the way they kill the transmittee in the process of pretending to move them (here’s an example) and you know what? It’s true! But I’d still get in one. I explain why in this interview with […]
“Star Trek’s vision becomes reality” proclaims the Physorg headline. Alas, not so much. Professor Alexander Szameit from University of Jena has for the first time demonstrated classical teleportation, which won’t beam anyone up anywhere soon, but it is definitely one small step closer to the invention of d-mat and some jolly interesting science to boot. […]
Through February I was privileged to write a progressive story with a bunch of primary school kids from all across South Australia. “Escape From Thorngate Hall” has thirty chapters; I wrote the first and last. The rest was entirely up to the kids. Each chapter was published in the Adelaide Advertiser one day at a […]
There’s a trilogy of songs I will permanently associate with the Twinmaker series. One is “Jump” by Van Halen, after the title of the first book of the series in Australia. The other is “Jesse’s Girl” by Rick Springfield. This song (which I always play when I’m DJing, if I can get away with it) […]