All Tomorrow’s Futures – TODAY!

Separating fact from fiction. No, wait... combining fact and fiction.

Well how much fun was that. The amazing Eva Pascoe and the good folk from the Cybersalon think tank invited me up to the launch of “All Tomorrow’s Futures” at the British Science Fiction convention in Telford at the weekend.

Eva kindly wrote the forward to my new book “Money in the Metaverse” but is better known for co-founding Cyberia, the first internet cafe in UK, located at 39 Whitfield Street in the heart of London’s famous West End.

As an aside, Ironbridge (just outside Telford) was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, so I could not help but stop off and pay homage to the structure itself.

I had a lovely day out learning about coke. Meanwhile back at the Telford International Centre, Eva was gearing up to the book launch.

“All Tomorrow’s Futures” is anthology of new speculative fiction produced through an interesting combination of art and science. The writers produced rough drafts of the these stories and the stories and then sent them out to domain experts (e.g., me) for comment and critique. The writers then took the expert input and used it to refine their work.

I was a subject matter expert for Part 3, the section on Finance and Digital Money, and I have to say that I loved it! It was so interesting (and fun) working with the writers and watching them evolve material far more imaginative and expressive than I would have thought of myself.

Editor Stephen Oram, Contributor Eva Pascoe and “Expert” Me (Next to actual physical books!)

The book was launched simultaneously in the universe (in Telford) and a metaverse (the Spatial recreation of the Cyberia web café) and a great time was had by all. I was astonished to discover that people even wanted to hang around and ask questions afterwards, so thank you to everyone who stayed and made it so memorable for me.

The whole real/virtual boundary has gone fractal if you ask me.

What more can I say than it is a great way to write a book, as well as being a great book and you should buy it!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know two things. First of all, “All Tomorrow’s Futures” is available on Kindle today for just 99p, so you’d be mad not to buy it (and please leave a review to help all of these great authors know what you liked and what you didn’t like). Second of all, I happen to have a spare copy of the book on my desk and if you are the first person to comment here on Substack below, I will get it you COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE.

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