“Imagine a machine that can move you from place to place. Not a plane or a car, but a booth you step into. You tell the machine where you want to go. It takes you there. To you, it seems like no time at all has passed. To everyone else, maybe a minute or two. […]
I’m very excited that Apple has chosen Twinmaker: Jump as one of its twelve “Best Books of November” in the Aus/NZ iBooks store, alongside books by Christos Tsiolkas, Donna Tartt, Tom Keneally, Di Morrissey and Matt Reilly. You have to scroll to the side to see it, but nonetheless! It is there! “In this promising […]
Shaheen at Specsonspecfic was kind enough to give me a guest post in which to talk about how Twinmaker: Jump came into being: “one idea isn’t enough for a novel, and I absolutely did not want to write a philosophy textbook. The book I wanted to write was a fast-paced thriller with a dash of […]
The convergence of 3-D printing, quantum teleportation and the Cloud suggests that soon people will be able to jump anywhere, anytime. (Watch on YouTube.) Twinmaker provides a glimpse into what this future might look like. There will be wonderful opportunities. There will also be dangers. Would you let yourself be taken apart and put together […]