In 2012 I rewrote Twinmaker: Jump from Q’s completely different perspective, giving me new insights into her character in the process. That manuscript, “Making and Remaking Iteration 113”, ran to a little under 70,000 words, one third shorter than the original novel. “I, Q”, in turn, is a radically slimmed-down version of that unpublished ms, […]
The Twinmaker tie-in e-book “I, Q”, which tells the story of the novel from the point of view of Q, comes out next week (September 1st, from the good people at Allen & Unwin) and the cover is now live! Isn’t that a beauty? Here’s the blurb: I was not I at all before the […]
I will never stop thinking that matter transmitters are interesting. As further evidence of this, my first academic publication, a chapter in a book called Travel & Imagination, is coming out in April. I received the cover and publication date this week. The title of my chapter is “MT Promises: Science Fictional Travel Technologies and […]
Thanks to my wonderful supervisors and examiners (and various critical supporters, such as my wife, without whom none of this) my PhD is going to be awarded real soon now (touchwood) making me something of an official expert in matter transmitters–or, as I prefer to call it, “Doctor D-mat”. Before I can start pompously insisting […]