All Posts

I am excited to announce that "My Precious Starlight" has been accepted for publication by a new horror magazine "The Oblivion Index". The story is with the editorial team now and due for release Spring 2026, stay posted for more news and updates. My thanks to Jesus Santana for producing this amazing piece of art of Aisha Alhazen the protagonist of the story. My thanks to Connor Mancuso and the editorial team at "The Oblivion Index" for choosing this work in their inaugural i

I will be releasing my novel, "A queen of light and shadow" chapter by chapter on Substack. This will go out alongside original art produced by Jesus Santana . You can find the first chapter here All this work and artwork is being produced at my own expense. It is all human made without any AI content of any form. No AI is used in my writing or research process and no AI is used in Jesus's digital art. This will remain free and not behind a paywall but if you want to support

Welcome to Boleskine House Estate Eco Collective "Frank was sweating profusely, it was hot, far too hot for Autumn in the Scottish Highlands. The heat seemed to linger fearsomely as well, in an unnatural way for this part of the world." Just a quick note to say I have dropped a new short story on SubStack here . This is a story set on Boleskine House Estate Eco Collective, a Solar Punk farm with a bunch of well intentioned hippies trying to save the planet and live in harmony

Welcome to Archetopia the world of archetypes! Join "The Way of Harmony" and learn of the struggles against "The Shadow" “This is the mother-love which is one of the most moving and unforgettable memories of our lives, the mysterious root of all growth and change; the love that means homecoming, shelter, and the long silence from which everything begins and in which everything ends.” Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious The mother in her fullness, Astriarlaissa

You can find the story "The Song of Kali" here I have written another Amanda focused short story, a prequel partly set in rural India where she travels to train under her Yoga teacher, Guru Harit. Learn of the seed which was planted all those years ago, the seed that would transform her life forever. This story was written as part of a writing competition set by A.M. Blackmere. He writes "Gothic and medieval horror— stories of dread, devotion, and the monstrous unknown." You

“He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.” Zhou Yu “Ladies and gentlemen here we are at PTDRCtv Centre Stage and we are delighted to welcome DeepSeeks very own 慧美周 (Huìměizhoulang or “Zhou the brilliant beauty”) back to the studio for a huge reveal.” 孙小会 (Sun Xiaohui) was nervous and excited, ready to meet one of her digital idols, he was so amazi

Jesus has yet again brought his unique vision and passion to my work. I would like to illustrate why working with other humans (aside from you know ethically and for general lifestyle pleasure and the joy of human interaction) will actually refine and improve your own art as well. I would like to do this with a study of "Chapel by the Sea" by Jesus Santana I commissioned three pieces to go alongside my own short story of the same name. But asked firstly that he choose the th

"Monkey had shown his people how to dig up roots, to sift through sand with water to find seeds and how to use sticks to catch ants from their nest." I want to announce a new collaboration. For my Daoist children's story, "The Five Animal Play" I needed a new art direction, one that was very much inspired by traditional Chinese painting, but with a little bit of a modern twist (just like my story). I would like to introduce you to Jianyu. Jianyu is a young Chinese artist stil

I have been making a terrible mistake. I have been writing fiction that my number one fan cant read! My daughter Sophie-Ling is only little and my fiction is far from age appropriate! So I have decided to start writing a children's story as well. I actually had the idea for the story many years ago, but I can no longer keep the fan waiting. The Five Animal play is a short story with Daoist philosophical themes about awesome animals. Join the powerful and stealthy Lord Tiger,

I have a huge list of papers, reports and blog posts that go in my "Scifi is now!" folder. The list just keeps getting larger and larger and at some point I will do a mega blog post highlighting all the real world issues and tech that I include in my work. I was not planning on singling out one specific paper on the blog but THIS was so troubling and terrifying that I needed to call it out. The paper, by an AI safety startup (Or a small band of hereos fighting against the fo

Just a quick note to day I have returned to YouTube and started a new series on Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs). The first video is available here I will be working through a signifcant review paper in the area which you can find here . I find this area fascinating and also deeply empowering. Ranging from healing those with debilitating injuries, reversing congenital problems all the way to expanding human abilities to the super human and merging our minds with machines. As

“It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.” Rocky balboa Sylvester Stallone I just want to make a quite note to say thank you to small group of people that read my work, like my posts on social media or engage with me or the material in any way. Thank you so much everyone. I appreciate you all. I have struggled a lot after the breakdown of my marriage. I was left without a job

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity," Hippocrates The camera panned around the large conference centre before settling on the reporter. She had some cyberisation of her hand and forearm. Delicate work, the skin was still a little raw, it looked like it had been done to cover a burn or other injury. "This is Vicky Tso, reporting from Al Jazeera tech live! We are here in London at the Excel centre with Dr Robert Sinclair from RP Robototics a

I have been having a deep think about why I write and what I want to get out of this. After my divorce I have been struggling to find my own way, my own voice, my own values. I have never been particularly motivated by capitalism. I have and always have wanted to pursue things I find interesting, meaningful and useful. My initial desire to make money and a business out of my work was probably just and hangover from the values I had adopted in my marriage. Time to be my own ma

Just a quick guide to my series of shorts on Chinese artificial general intelligences (AGIs) . If you didn't realise already the last set of blog posts all had a common theme, they are told from the point of view of three very different AGIs inspired by great scholars/leaders/generals from the three kingdoms period of China. We have three different agents, each created for very different reasons and behaving very differently. CCP-WW216 was created by  Tsinghua University Mil

It is what it is... Just a quick not to say that I'm up on Substack now. You can find my page here . I'm trying to avoid social media as generally I don't find it that good for my mental health, but I do want to post and share my work. So I'm in a little bit of a bind. This is just another place for me to share the stories but don't expect lots of regular posts/notes. I do find this one slightly better than some of the others as it actually encourages me to read rather than j

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War "And we are LIVE!...

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental,...

足智多谋 zú zhì duō móu (To be full of knowledge and have plenty of ideas, 4 character phrase used to describe mothers of wisdom and...

“Though the tortoise blessed with magic powers lives long,  Its days have their allotted span;" Though the Tortoise Lives Long, The King...