Virtual Futures’ Near-Future Fictions series returns in 2019 to continue its mission to reassert the significance of science fiction as a tool for criticising, interrogating, and navigating possible tomorrows. Our aim is to promote stories that think critically about...
The buildings, towns, and cities we live in are slowly transforming as we use technology to make our lives more comfortable. Voice and AI controlled heating, lighting, white goods, entertainment, personal assistants are already taking over the home. Will climate...
At my recent book launch, award-winning author, Lauren St John, interviewed me about my new book, The Kind. Here’s the transcript of the interview. A large part of The Kind is set 450 years in the future. How can you know what will happen then? The more you...
London, England. November 19th, 2017. Four hundred and fifty years from now, England will be unrecognisable to today’s inhabitants; a desert archipelago. The green patchwork quilt of the south and the east, will either be under water or burnt to dust by heat...
I’m really pleased to be able to announce that there will be another series of near-future fictions for Virtual Futures and this time I’ll be co-curating with Stephen Oram. Other writers Stephen will be co-curating with are Allen Ashley, Britte Schulte and...
Writers usually write because they love to read and reading leaves them with words and stories of their own rattling round in their heads. The human mind runs on narratives and all humans are storytellers and consumers of stories. If narrative is our default means of...
