From the 24th to the 27th of September, my new novella is on a review tour.
You can see what the reviewers make of it by checking out their various blogs and Instagram accounts in the poster below.
Brain Fruit on tour
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500 “Brain Fruits” released today
Today 500 “Brain Fruits” are released by L’il Factory, using old printing techniques to birth a far future story.
“A mind-bending, bio-digital fable that pulses with poetic strangeness. Oram’s Brain Fruit is daring, disorienting, and deeply human.”
As the latest review from Josh M on NetGalley says, “A fruit falls and new life begins: a trioid with bee and bug. Thought-provoking short novella about identity and connection. To say too much might spoil it, just read.”
The beginning… “The evolutionary crawl continues its upward curve when the first of the fruits to drop this season hits the ground. It lies there helpless, and I reflect on the fact that, even as I was building this fruit, I thought it was special.”
More about the story here – https://stephenoram.net/brain-fruit/
More about the printing here – https://lilfac.com/printing
The future of hydrogen (with BMW)
I had a fascinating afternoon hosted by BMW where we discussed the future uses of hydrogen.
Some of the conversation was technical and some of it was societal. All of it was interesting.
I hadn’t realised the extent to which hydrogen can be used, and actually how much it’s already being used, in some of the more ‘background’ things of the world, such as shipping, building materials production, and even lorries / trucks.
It was an inspiring afternoon and already one of my short stories features a hydrogen powered vehicle.
My main takeaways were that: it has a perception problem around safety; an infrastructure issue (in the same way as electric vehicles do; and for domestic transport (cars) it’ll probably need to start with hybrid of electric and hydrogen. That said, it’s potential across a range of uses is big.
If the shout at the moment is to ‘Terminate Pollution’ (see interview with Arnie) then this could be a part of the answer.
