Today is the most important day since her return, as she has been asked to receive a posthumous Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her late friend, Karen Chambers, for her tireless work in integrating sophonts into society. The android takes the stage at the Oslo City Hall.
In this third and final instalment of the Sophont trilogy, Karen’s granddaughter, Holly Bryson, also notices discrepancies between Coppélia’s anecdotal stories and the visual records that form part of her grandmother’s memoirs, but the inconsistencies she notices are not so easy to dismiss. The burning question at the fore of Holly’s mind is whether or not the android onstage is the same android that was her grandmother’s best friend.
To find the answer to that question, Holly finds herself on a journey that, as yet, only exists in astrophysicist’s minds and calculations.
I suppose you could say I was a late starter as far as creative writing goes, dipping my toe into the writing world, seeking my voice, and finally publishing my first novel 'Revelation' in 2016 at the age of 59
Just under five years later, I've now written and published ten novels, two novellas, and several short stories.
Some writers like to stay strictly within the bounds of one genre but I could probably be described as a hybrid in that regard. I do stay within the genre of science fiction (for the most part) but I also like to move between the sub-genres of sci-fi, from advanced science and technology to space exploration to parallel universes and beyond.
A born and bred Englishman, I've lived in Brazil since 2007 and I share my life with Eliene (a successful amateur distance runner), our cat, Tabitha, and our dogs Sophie and Simba. I'm an avid Tottenham Hotspur fan.