This is the quickest possible post to apologise for being a bit slow on the posting front. It’s Mad March here in Adelaide, which means that everything that can possibly here must happen at the same time. Specifically for me Adelaide Writers’ Week (I’m on the advisory committee), WOMADelaide and the Unsound Festival. They’re keeping […]
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 […]
This d-mat scenario scares me more than any other, because nature will always find a way to make things nasty for us, given a chance. You’d be surprised how often d-mat booths are struck by lightning. I know that doesn’t answer your question, but I’ll get there. They assure us the booths are safe, but […]
I’m often asked this. Twinmaker, Troubletwisters and the Books of the Cataclysm all feature twins (identical, fraternal and mirror, respectively). Then there are the books that feature duplication of people, one way or another in Geodesica, Orphans, The Resurrected Man, The Fixers, Astropolis . . . it never ends. So why? This is a question […]