Author Archives: Stephen Oram

About Stephen Oram

Stephen Oram writes near-future and speculative fiction. His work has been praised by publications as diverse as The Morning Star and The Financial Times.

New: 8th episode of Our Data, Our Future.

Dead Bots and Data Sets.
Who owns the deceased? Who knows the deceased? Who gets to simulate the deceased? Do we ever fully know someone? Can the ‘grief bot’ companies really replicate? Do they have the right data? Do they have the rights to the data?

Here are 10 minutes of ‘starter’ thoughts on the subject.

https://open.substack.com/pub/nudgethefuture/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-2d7

New piece: parallel lines, morse code and cut up.

What is probably my most experimental piece to be published is out today.

Same Happens at the Everything Time” is in Verschränkung, the Spring/Summer issue of Sein Und Werden.

[Editor’s note: the author specified the use of the parallel line symbols in the subtitle and the morse code section headings, because they both contribute additional meaning to the piece. In addition, the author used Excel to randomise the sequence of the sentences in each section three times before picking his favourite, in a kind of digital cut-up technique.]