posted by John Meaney at
10:44
John Meaney is a lifelong martial artist, a computer consultant with degrees in physics and computer science, and a trained hypnotist.
As an author of several series, he has won the IPPY Award and been a finalist for the BSFA Award multiple times.
A new series of contemporary cyber thrillers features Case, a spec-ops cyber specialist who hears voices in his head. And then there's his fearsome partner Kat...
His near-future thrillers feature Josh Cumberland, an ex-special forces cyber specialist driven by family tragedy, desperate to do good in a near-future Britain wracked by climate change, a legalized knife culture and political corruption.
The Donal Riordan novels feature a detective in the spooky city of Tristopolis, where the sky is darkest purple and the city’s reactors are powered by the bones of the dead.
His seven Pilots novels include the Ragnarok trilogy, which begins with alien influences on humans at the dawn of the Viking era, includes the birth of the digital age at Bletchley Park, and concludes a million years from now with a conflict against forces from beyond a cosmic void.
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John, I would love to see a tab on your site that talks more about the mental and physical fitness regimes and regimens you and your characters use to such great effect. Most fun for me would be to read about how Tom Corcoran's workout differs from Josh Cumberland's, or Donal Riordan's for that matter, as a reflection of how your thoughts have changed over the years. Maybe just posting the charming appendices you've provided would suffice.
Hey, Chris... That does sound like fun. And I've not really thought about Tom very much during the last few years, though that might, just might change...
Anyway, I really like that idea. Thank you!
...Ah, and I've just noticed that you mention mental as well physical regimes. Hmm. This is something that could expand. I'll probably start with the physical stuff, put that up on the page, and then add to it. Excellent stuff!
John, I heard you at Illustrious this year and was serious tuned in to the insight you gave about FTL travel, the physical universe and the science based ground work to some of your ideas. Despite some of your fellow panelists looking bemused I thought it captured some interesting stuff. Care to throw some more enlightenment our way?
Hi, Oxysmart - Thank you very much, and I'm glad your comment resurfaced after the blogger hiccup...
I'll definitely whip up something. At Illustrious I was trying not to take over the panel, either by taking too much or leaping out from behind the table to illustrate what I was talking about.
At my talk to the Birmingham SF Group 8 days ago, I explained the whole arrow-of-time thing with visual aids: wooden hoops of varying diameters (held up by the cheerfully obliging front row) to represent snapshots of the universe at different times. Much fun, plus I think everyone understood it, too.
I'm sure I can do something here...as a separate post or part of a new Weird Science page, or both. Thanks again!
PS. Thanks for your diplomacy - I think my fellow panellists' heads fell right off...
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