About a hundred years ago, HG Wells wrote a short story in which there were robots designed to hold and feed babies, releasing parents from the duties of early childcare. Well, it’s happened. I saw a picture on TwitteX today. Someone has actually invented just that. I hated the idea when I first encountered it; […]
I’ve noticed that a load of online publishers are hungry for “Hopeful Sci-Fi”. Stories in which technology solves the world’s problems. They’re paying well for it, some of them. Looks like that sort of fiction is hard to find. I wonder why. I open my copious files of short stories to see if I’ve got
Don’t annoy me. I’m a writer. Oh, and don’t annoy my sister either. She used to lead hillwalking expeditions at a summer camp, but she wasn’t allowed to choose her staff. Every year, she ended up working alongside a Flat Earther who believed maps were fiction and their lines of latitude and longitude were lies.
