Reality Testing is available on your junktech devices now!

Rather foolishly, amid all the stress involved in publishing a novel at relatively short notice, I forgot to make an announcement on my own website. And so: Reality Testing is out now! It scraped into the Amazon top 100 for cyberpunk and hard science fiction on Wednesday, which was pleasant, and there’s a marketing campaign scheduled to kick off on Monday. A few reviews from publications/bloggers should hopefully arrive within the next couple of months. Other than that….not much I can do now, is there? It’s out, in the world, no longer my own, and I am left alone with my fears of inadequacy and imposter syndrome. Maybe I should write an essay about that.

Enough. Watch the trailer below and purchase for the couldn’t-be-lower-sum of €/$2.99 here and here and here.

Neon threads woven in the stars - Grand Illusion by Blue Loop

Most tangentially linked post ever coming up: the London-based electronic artist Blue Loop has released her debut EP today. Titled Grand Illusion, it’s a 22-minute-long exploration of ambient techno, IDM, progressive electronic and found sound. Genau meins, as the Germans would say. The best (or perhaps pertinent to this website) part is this: the first track is titled By the Feet of Men, which Blue Loop composed after reading the sort-of-but-not-really-internationally-acclaimed, definitely-not-a-smash-hit dystopian novel By the Feet of Men, which I happened to write.

Quite the honour, I would say.

As for the title, Grand Illusion:

Grand Illusion takes its name from a garish billboard in the 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi, a terrifying depiction of humanity and our merciless colonisation of the natural world.

Poetry, man. Pure poetry.

mechanical trees.