I would like to define a cybernetic novel as one that writes itself, or one where the reader is also the narrator. A novel that possesses self-reflexivity. I made the sketch (see above) some time ago while thinking about my novel "The Island Survival Guide". When I say "I thought about my novel"...
Category: Notes on works
Notes on “Turing”
What made Alan Turing decide to commit suicide? This no-one knows. Although the official verdict is that he killed himself, there are too many gaps in the story. He was not depressed. The hormone therapy he was ordered to undertake had finished a year before. He had circle of good...
The Secrets of the Lands Without: concept notes
The Secrets of the Lands Without is a novel about Religion meeting Science, a literary exploration into the latest theories of physics, biology and cosmology, as well as their relation to the World’s religious and esoteric beliefs. Around twenty billion years there was the beginning of Time, when the Word of God...
Archipelago Republic: concept notes
The 15th century was of tremendous importance to European affairs. It was the beginning of the expansion of "western civilisation" across the globe, through Renaissance and the Age of Discoveries. During the same time, the Greek Empire of Byzantium fell to the Turks - in 1453 - and most of the historical Greek lands...