In The Boy Who Fell from the Sky, Mathew Erlang uses smart glasses in the same way that we use mobile phones today. By 2055, this seems quite a likely scenario and may become every day reality much sooner. Smart vision technology today is an amalgamation of advanced...
When The Boy Who Fell from the Sky was published on September 22, 2015, the world was quite different. There was widespread optimism about the future. Climate change was talked about mainly in scientific journals and was not dominating the front pages of newspapers as...
Climate change fiction, commonly referred to as “cli-fi,” has grown in prominence as a literary genre over the past few years, particularly as the realities of climate change become more evident in our daily lives. This genre often explores the social,...
Engineering company Made In Space, known for sending the first 3D printer to the International Space Station (ISS), is actively expanding the capabilities of in-space manufacturing. Their focus includes repurposing waste plastic and potentially using moon dirt as...
It has been slightly surreal -preparing to launch a book about a (mostly) dystopian future during a pandemic, but at the same time weirdly comforting being in such familiar territory. My characters’ lives are restricted by world events, far outside their...
