A writing Timeline

0000
January 1
The start

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, Dan is born. He learns to read, and soon enough is ransacking the science fiction shelves of the town library. So much so that after a while he’s read everything and instead has to travel to the nearest city to…Read More

2000
January 1
Tank Boy

Dan grows up, gets educated, writes his first story. Joins the information superhighway and learns about the magic of usenet. Joins news:alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo and starts to contribute. Alt cyberpunk chatsubo was a group dedicated to the discussion of why cyberpunk was just so cool. It also had a load of budding authors…Read More

2001
February 11
Respect your Elders

My second ACC story. Rather better, inspired by Mr ? and his story “Brain Trust” I’ll post it here when i’ve cleaned it up.

2002
July 5
Roost

This was a continuation of a story thread that got going in ACC. The main thrust of the idea was “what happens when cyborgs get old?” – it ended up being called “The grey and chromed.” These all got archived here, but i will reproduce my story here for completeness…Read More

2009
October 12
Completion time

I wrote a story to enter a flash fiction competion, run by Newscientist magazine. (https://www.newscientist.com/) My story got fourth place (…shades of you have won second place in a beauty contest) . Funny thing is, as the rights were given away (I think) – It popped up in the most…Read More