Author Interview: Graham Storrs
10 October 2011
Today, it’s gives me pleasure to introduce you to another of our Hope authors – Graham Storrs author of The God on the Mountain.
Please tell us a bit about yourself, Graham.
I live in rural Australia with my wife, Christine, and an Airedale terrier called Bertie. I had a career as a scientist and then a software designer and published three children’s science books and scores of articles and academic papers (in the fields of psychology, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction). Three years ago. I turned my attention to science fiction and since then, I’ve published about twenty short stories in magazines and anthologies. Last year, my début novel, a time travel thriller called TimeSplash, was published.
You’ve been quite busy over the years. What is your story in the Hope anthology about and what inspired it?
This was a hard story to write. In science fiction, it’s all too easy to write about dystopian futures and take a cynical attitude to everything. When I saw what this anthology was about, I was determined to write about hope itself. And then I found out just how hard it is even to define what I understood hope to mean. One of the main characters in the story – the robot, Broome – is from a series of novels I have been writing. I love this guy dearly and I wanted to put my message about hope in Broome’s mouth to emphasise the universality of this amazing emotion.
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m almost finished writing a near-future sci-fi thriller I call The Sentience Machine. It’s the second in a series about a world where uploaded human minds are the first immortal transhumans and the conflicts they face in a world moving steadily towards the religious right. My protagonist is unwillingly caught up in the machinations of both sides, and is struggling to save himself and the people he loves from the conflict.
If you would like to find out more about Graham and his writing, please visit his website – Graham Storrs
