I’m obsessed with d-mat. (Does it show?) As well as writing Twinmaker and all the related short stories and urban myths and stuff–having huge fun doing it too, let me tell you–I was working on a PhD examining the history of matter transmitters, with a view to making other people obsessed with them too. Or […]
Clair Hill, the main character of Twinmaker, loves music. I do too, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that she shares some of my tastes. One of my favourite composers is Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, a member of the French group Les Six (not a band name, but it would be a good one, wouldn’t it?). He […]
Because even in the future, I’m sure some people will still fall for pseudoscientific guff like this . . . Have you heard the one about the “Telecleansing” guru who used d-mat to “cleanse” himself of cholesterol? He died, of course: our cells don’t work if you take all the cholesterol out. What about the […]
I’ve been madly working on Crashland, the sequel to Twinmaker, hence the slowness on the blogging front. That will be rectified soon! In the meantime, here are some random things from the last week: Clair’s lenses are well on the way to becoming a reality.“This is not science fiction,” chief researcher for the project Jelle De […]