Infiltrator is the sixth instalment of the Dropzone series of military sci-fi books. It continues from directly where Notorious (Dropzone #5) , Derelict (Dropzone #4), Shadow Puppets (Dropzone #3), Parasite (Dropzone #2) and Fleet Rats (Dropzone #1) left off, with the same characters. The Dropzone series is set in the same universe as my previous sci-fi […]
Derelict is the fourth instalment of the Dropzone series of military sci-fi books. It continues from directly where Shadow Puppets (Dropzone #3), Parasite (Dropzone #2)and Fleet Rats (Dropzone #1) left off, with the same characters. The Dropzone series is set in the same universe as my previous sci-fi books – Conversations With Droids, The Kassini Division and Rise Of The Exiles – […]
The recent popularisation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has opened the conversation about all sorts of topics that normally remain sealed in the sci-fi vaults. Think-pieces speculate on fears about so-called ‘AI’ apps infiltrating our workplaces, posing as innocent helpers, only to replace human endeavour entirely… These are fears that have been around since the industrial revolution… […]
Hello Ortegamers! Winter is really starting to make itself felt where I am, so I thought I’d write a few words on what I’ve been playing to insulate myself from the blues. Playing now: MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries The MechWarrior games are another of these institutions I admit I didn’t have much insight into because I’ve never been […]
Dead Formats (A Rand Hoté Mystery) is my new book, available now on Amazon. It’s a science-fiction mystery novel, featuring a detective investigating a murder in a near-future world that’s extrapolated from our own. Here’s the blurb: When holo lawyer Rand Hoté meets Tegan Kolechko, she hires him to investigate her death. Tegan’s been resurrected as a hologram, but has no memory of […]
My latest novel is a sci-fi mystery story set in 2064, in a world based loosely on our own where immortality has been achieved via workable, but imperfect, hologram simulation technology. Check out the amazing cover, which was designed by Kat Bastow and incorporates elements by Bruno Thethe and Irina Bg. I think it manages […]
Dystopian fiction just became even harder to write today, as reality upped its game considerably with Amazon’s announcement of the Astro domestic robot… This 20lb, two-foot-tall domestic surveillance droid is designed to offer its owners “peace of mind” – ‘in exchange for you handing over every last scrap of you and your family’s privacy forever’, […]
Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers is my favourite SF story. Day by day, its main thesis – that we’ve all been replaced by emotionless simulacra who look, sound and think alike – becomes less of a sci-fi idea and more of a prediction. An example: a number of podcasts I’ve heard recently featured authors arguing about […]
Writing far-future sci-fi is a pretty front-loaded undertaking – there’s a lot to be decided on before you place those chubby monkey digits on the keyboard and start hammering away. And one of the reasons it’s worth doing in the first place is that you get to write about spaceships (which, because of Star Trek, Star […]
As a writer of both sarcastic and extremely aggressive robot characters, I’m naturally interested in any developments in the field of AI… that my laughably primitive, non-scientific brain can actually understand and process, that is. Mainstream media understandably has its own obsessions at the moment and consequently, amazing developments happen under the radar. Perhaps some […]
