Two small green photos from The Big Green Bookshop…!

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…the FABULOUS new independent bookstore that opened in London’s Wood Green (a short hop from where I live!) just a couple of months ago. To my great glee and delight, samurai booksellers Simon and Tim invited me there to come and speak this morning to a fantastic group of young people from nearby Noel Park Primary School.

Questions flowed fast from the outset (just how I like it! thank you!) So much so, in fact, that despite the session lasting more than an hour there was only time for one reading: to make it count, I went for one of the flying kung fu scenes from The Black Tattoo (from the chapter called Skills). If anyone who was there is reading this, I hope you enjoyed listening to me – I certainly enjoyed talking to you! 🙂

In other news, here’s a video about modular robots, courtesy of my absolute favourite magazine right now (and constant source of story inspiration) New Scientist.

OK, I appreciate you’ve maybe got to look at this with the eye of faith! But it seems to me that human technology is already making a reality of the opening ‘self assembling’ scene of Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man [that’s The Iron Giant, if you’re tuning in from the US.] How much longer, then, before modularity, distributed processing and nanotech combine to form something like what Tim‘s PROFESSOR MALLAHIDE can do?? The book’s written to be fun, but suddenly it doesn’t seem all that unfeasible. HEE HEE HEE!

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