There have been a couple of videos doing the rounds about how matter transmitters are murder machines because of the way they kill the transmittee in the process of pretending to move them (here’s an example) and you know what? It’s true! But I’d still get in one. I explain why in this interview with […]
“Star Trek’s vision becomes reality” proclaims the Physorg headline. Alas, not so much. Professor Alexander Szameit from University of Jena has for the first time demonstrated classical teleportation, which won’t beam anyone up anywhere soon, but it is definitely one small step closer to the invention of d-mat and some jolly interesting science to boot. […]
Through February I was privileged to write a progressive story with a bunch of primary school kids from all across South Australia. “Escape From Thorngate Hall” has thirty chapters; I wrote the first and last. The rest was entirely up to the kids. Each chapter was published in the Adelaide Advertiser one day at a […]
“Tyranny of Distance” is one of my favourite Twinmaker stories, inspired by the real story of a man who was killed while crossing America on foot for charity. It also references the town my mother’s family came from (one of my favourite places in the universe) and is dedicated to the memory of an old […]