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@adrianco It was great to catch up at QCon!! As promised, a US link to the first on my Panopticon series...

@adrianco It was great to catch up at QCon!! As promised, a US link to the first on my Panopticon series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QSW8W9J. I really need to be more active on Mastodon...

@mrchrisadams @rossf7 Hello!

@mrchrisadams @rossf7 Hello!

tl;dr Evil geniuses (genii?) you could trigger a volcano to explode...

tl;dr Evil geniuses (genii?) you could trigger a volcano to explode https://www.wired.com/2012/04/could-people-trigger-a-volcanic-eruption-on-purpose/ but you can't pick when very well or which. (BTW it's much like the way Sauron did it, so that was better than I'd thought)

Last chance! Happy Christmas all! There's a free promotion running on the first 3 Panopticon novels today...

Last chance! Happy Christmas all! There's a free promotion running on the first 3 Panopticon novels today https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QSW8W9J if folk fancy a good Twixtmas read!!

Happy Christmas all! There's a free promotion running on the first 3 Panopticon novels today https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QSW8W9J if...

Happy Christmas all! There's a free promotion running on the first 3 Panopticon novels today https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QSW8W9J if folk fancy a good Twixtmas read!!

BTW all records were broken this year when one person (and I now know who they were) read 5 1/2 Panopticon novels in one 24 hour period whilst also suffering from COVID. They hold my impressive reader award for 2020 ;-)

After 3.5y, crowdfunded solar sail satellite finally brought down by solar activity warming the atmosphere (ironic in many ways)...

After 3.5y, crowdfunded solar sail satellite finally brought down by solar activity warming the atmosphere (ironic in many ways) https://www.space.com/lightsail-2-solar-sailing-mission-ends #Space #SolarSail

In ways this breaks my Mastodon rule (this a/c is about my novels!) but in other ways totally aligned because it's the kind of thing the...

In ways this breaks my Mastodon rule (this a/c is about my novels!) but in other ways totally aligned because it's the kind of thing the books are about https://blog.container-solutions.com/content-delivery-networks. How did the internet survive 2020? How do systems successfully survive an existential-level event (actually 2020 wasn't existential for the internet, but that's part of the story) @liljenstolpe #Internet #Resilience #Cloud

@drysdale the great transition...

@drysdale the great transition...

I realise in my books geoengineering happens before space based solar power happens before fusion. #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction...

I realise in my books geoengineering happens before space based solar power happens before fusion. #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction It'll be interesting to see if things turn out that way...

https://www.space.com/airbus-space-solar-power-test space based solar power (SBSP) is an obsession of one of my characters in Panopticon...

https://www.space.com/airbus-space-solar-power-test space based solar power (SBSP) is an obsession of one of my characters in Panopticon book 7 (Death Ray). The tech seems aligned with the move towards cheap satellite launches to me. I suspect it'll happen. It wouldn't surprise me at all if SBSP was on at least one national grid before fusion-powered electricity was.

“a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die,...

“a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it” - Max Planck. I know we're all Musk-bashing round here, but his arg about why he isn't getting into longevity might be a good one. Humans having a natural time limit may be a good thing? OTOH Verner Vinge's Rainbow's End did handle the emotional challenges (& possibilities) of retraining well, I thought.

SC knows how to world build and make you care about characters, even flawed ones. If you liked the original trilogy, you will enjoy this and...

SC knows how to world build and make you care about characters, even flawed ones. If you liked the original trilogy, you will enjoy this and if you haven't read them, they are worth your time. Don't be put off by the YA tag (if that normally puts you off). In my view, the series is high quality, classic science fiction. #HungerGames #ScienceFiction #SuzanneCollins

The prequel was recommended to me by a teenager as "the best book I have ever read!" convincing me to give it a try. It turns out...

The prequel was recommended to me by a teenager as "the best book I have ever read!" convincing me to give it a try. It turns out she had good judgement. The hefty novel is as page turning as the original trilogy, which is no mean feat since the latest protagonist, Cornelius Snow, is the villain of the later novels and hard to like. Not only that, he is not the character at personal risk. All of this makes Collin's job harder, but she rises to the challenge, and the experiment works very well

Currently reading Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Suzanne-Collins/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASuzanne+Collins)...

Currently reading Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Suzanne-Collins/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASuzanne+Collins) The Hunger Games prequel by Suzanne Collins. It doesn't disappoint. It's neither nasty, brutish nor short ;-)

I've always enjoyed a bit of post-apocalyptic YA & The Hunger Games series was one of the best examples I've run across. Intelligent, thoughtful, influenced by a wide variety of prior work from Battle Royale to Theseus to Hobbes....

UK set to become a space power... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/30/first-space-launch-british-history-mini-satellites-orbit...

UK set to become a space power... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/30/first-space-launch-british-history-mini-satellites-orbit Interesting.

Created a Mastodon account to focus more on #sciencefiction. For my latest novel, W/T Invisible Hand, thinking about the pros and cons of...

Created a Mastodon account to focus more on #sciencefiction. For my latest novel, W/T Invisible Hand, thinking about the pros and cons of humans living forever.

"Science advances one funeral at a time." - Max Planck
"Who wants to live forever?" - Freddy Mercury

The Panopticon Series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panopticon/dp/B0892R9X13