As part of the celebrations for the release of my latest book, I visited Simon Townley's blog and answered some questions he put to me. Simon Townley is a British fiction writer and author of the acclaimed sci-fi / speculative novels ‘Lost In Thought’ and ‘Ball Machine’. I've read both of these and loved them. His writing credo is to defy the conventions of the literature versus genre debates and aim to create books that are both well written and a cracking good read. Simon also works as a copywriter, journalist and editor. He lives in Devon, England, with a woman, three cats and his beloved Airedale terriers. Click the link below to pop over and read the interview: http://www.simontownley.com/authors/tahlia-newland/ … [Read more...]
Wonderful Jungeon imagery: Lost in Thought by Simon Townley
Title: Lost in Thought. Author: Simon Townley Genre: Sci fi/fantasy/ metaphysical fiction I loved this book, reminiscent of the movie Inception in that it is about a group of people who enter another person's brain to retrieve some information and wake him from a coma. The man, a scientist called Richard, has discovered that the man backing the development of his project, a machine for entering peoples' brains wants to sell it for use as a weapon, whereas Richard has developed it for gaming and medical applications. The machine has the problem that some who go into someone else's mind return dead, crazy or in a coma. He has just discovered the algorithm that will make the machine safe and usable in a commercial sense, but in light of the new information he doesn't a want to share it with Dubois, the financial backer. Dubois decides to steal it. He breaks into Richard's house, but Richard catches him in the act. A scuffle ensues and Richard ends up bashed over the head and in a … [Read more...]
