You begin to see double, triple meanings in everything he says.
An AI, a virus, a prophecy.
A cryptic novel for the post-truth era
Haunted by a dream of a mystery woman, burned-out contractor Adam Walker joins an obscure government department overseeing a new system managed by AI.
When a message hidden in a junk email possesses his imagination, Walker enters a labyrinth of coincidence and hidden meaning
Summoned Upstairs, intergovernmental mandarin Akbal reveals the real reason for Walker’s hire. Like his predecessor, Mu, he has the illlness [sic], a virus transmitted by words.
Attacking the temporal lobes, it alters human identity. Subjects become invisible to the AI. Mu has gone dark. Walker must find him before he broadcasts a sequence of words, triggering a pandemic.
Light refers to spirituality on the one hand, and digital intelligence on the other.
Set in London and Tokyo, LIGHT is a rollercoaster dive into human identity.
1984 / George Orwell 1949
The Lord of the Rings / JRR Tolkien 1955
The Magus / John Fowles 1965
Gödel, Escher, Bach / Douglas Hofstadter 1979
Simulations / Jean Baudrillard 1981
The Fire from Within / Carlos Castaneda 1985
An Artist of the Floating World / Kazuo Ishiguro 1986
The Windup Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami 1995
The Information Bomb / Paul Virilio 1998
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us / Bill Joy 2000
Falling Out of Cars / Jeff Noon 2002
IQ84 / Haruki Murakami 2009
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LIGHT serialised in words and audio, with the first five chapters for free.
Essays on esoteric matters, current affairs, compliance, defiance, viruses and big changes.
Shortish pieces on life, current affairs and writing.
Short stories of transformation from the UK, Peru and Indonesia, connected by the theme of noise. From noisy neighbours in an overcrowded world to the magic of the rainforest and the wrath of the ocean.
Last Saturday, half a million people marched in London to demand an immediate end to Israel’s bombing of civilians trapped the world’s largest concentration camp... UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman described this peaceful protest as “a hate mob.” Find out why
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