Sep 17First Contact — The Anabasis“We know everything” [This is a first draft of a chapter in a scifi book I am writing and occurs about two thirds the way through. John Glenn and Rick Husband were real astronauts, with the latter dying as the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003] August…SciFi56 min readSciFi56 min read
Jun 6Karl’s StoryMillWall — No One likes us, we don’t care [The back story of Karl from the book Emily — a PostHuman Romance] It was not a good start being born to a violent drunk of a father and a mother who refused to leave him. It was like living a…SciFi21 min readSciFi21 min read
May 1Emily — A PostHuman Romance Ch.1Victoriana The Faerie Queene As even the longest journey begins with the first small step, so a cosmic tragedy proceeds inexorably from a knock on the door. Only silence and darkness existed, and a solid wooden door whose outline he could vaguely see as it glowed slightly warmer than the…SciFi82 min readSciFi82 min read
Mar 22Query Letter to Literary AgentsThis is the current query letter I am using, and refining, to try and find an agent to take on my book: Emily — a PostHuman Romance. The photo above is not included. My day job is as a scientist and engineer working in London, with interests including wide ranging…Science Fiction5 min readScience Fiction5 min read
Aug 23, 2022PID control1152Technology Robotix SocietyI have also seen the integral and derivative terms multiplied by Kp. Any comments on this practice?I have also seen the integral and derivative terms multiplied by Kp. Any comments on this practice?1 min read1 min read
Jul 22, 2021TechnoMageTechnological Paradigms for the Modification of Consciousness and Reality in Magick Stuff that works: Gods, demons, memetics and the rise of Transhumanism From hypnosis and NLP to electromagnetic brain stimulation From lucid dreaming to subliminal conditioning and brainwashing From mind control to the paranormal From modern séance techniques to remote viewing and psychokinesis From science to magick — changing the past and inter-dimensional communications From UFOs and ultra-terrestrials to computational demonology And the machines and drugs to make it happenOccult2 min readOccult2 min read
Mar 19, 2021Future Guns — Why SciFi Gets It WrongWe have all seen it — soldiers in the scifi future carrying their phasers, lasers, disruptors, blasters and so on, yet failing to hit their targets as the hero does cartwheels and back-flips to dodge the fire. The stormtroopers in Star Wars are notoriously bad shots, for example. In many…Science Fiction5 min readScience Fiction5 min read
Sep 6, 2020Elon Musk’s Neuralink — What He Is Not Telling YouTLDR: Scroll down to Conclusions Elon Musk has recently unveiled his company’s first Neuralink device implanted in an experimental animal — a pig. To briefly describe the device for those without much technical knowledge, it is an invasive technology based on the concept of a neural lace, which is a…Neuralink9 min readNeuralink9 min read
Aug 9, 2020AI Avatars — from Clippy to Rommie and BeyondAI Avatars — from Clippy to Rommie and Beyond From the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Avatar derives from a Sanskrit word meaning “descent,” and when it first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth — typically, the incarnation in earthly…Artificial Intelligence7 min readArtificial Intelligence7 min read
Jul 19, 2020Just Unlucky — the ultimate monster in the woods creepypastaJust Unlucky — the ultimate monster in the woods creepypasta Listen up you social media morons — I will say this only once for your benefit. I am not a murderer and the police and prosecutors will not be pressing any charges. What happened was just an unfortunate incident I…Creepypasta9 min readCreepypasta9 min read
