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About Toby Weston
His work weaves action and philosophy while dealing with the themes of consciousness, utopia, and the technological singularity.
His books are grounded in science, but he is prepared to take excursions into the fantastic.
Before writing books, Toby worked as a parking attendant, spook, tour guide, software engineer and chef (if you count making crab sandwiches).
His academic background spans Software Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, Environmental Biology and Deep Learning.
He is currently based in Switzerland where he writes and works in the field of digital innovation.
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Blog postThere’s Flight on Mars! Major milestone for Homosapiens! Congratulations NASA! A helicopter on Mars! Absolutely crazy SciFi stuff! Pinch me! Full video (with landing and spin down):Yesterday Read more
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Blog postThe latest video broadcast from the Cockpit of my faithful starship The Sanity Retreat… Check it out. Tell a friend.3 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postIf I’ve gotten a bit behind on my social media these last couple of weeks, it’s because I was away, researching an upcoming Paleo-Punk novel. By the way, I had the ‘ronna over XMas so was no risk to myself or others while travelling. I had swabs up the nose at every stop just in … Continue reading "PaleoPunk Novel"1 month ago Read more
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Blog postThis is a tricky one. My Monkey Logic column started out as a kind of joke. Look! Ha Ha! We are Monkeys! We think we are soo smart! Typical human hubris! But as I wrote the pieces, it turned out the hubris was mine. I’d believed the insight that ‘we are animals’, was quirky enough … Continue reading "Who Are They"1 month ago Read more
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Blog postSpaceX has done it! I just watched the launch, live, well live for me, like watching a missed football game on the VCR… “Don’t tell me who wins!” Here it is if you have not seen it yet: SN10 got a clean launch and stuck a solid landing! (Judges have to be harsh here, the … Continue reading "Starship Touch Down!"2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI am writing a story about two travellers visiting our neck of the woods. Our in the broadest sense… they come from a very long way away! I am looking for amusing anecdotes of people being a-holes to travellers or strangers. Especially when they really didn’t need to be! They do it because they’re a-holes; … Continue reading "Help me with Examples of Humans being Diks"2 months ago Read more
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Blog postI wanted to post this for posterity, to mark a point in history. The mask is slipping, the r/wallstreetbets vs the hedgies phenomenon is the worrisome rattling of another wheel preparing to fall off. I think it was Bill Bur who said r/wallstreetbets is the #MeToo moment for finance. Social media is disrupting everything it touches. Mobs … Continue reading "Monkey want Banana"2 months ago Read more
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Blog postCheck out me reading my latest Monkey Logic column and other updates including maps from the upcoming book Saloa: https://youtu.be/s4MyO7PXyEg3 months ago Read more
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Blog postBesos did not build the Internet. Gates did not create the micro-computer. Zuckerburg did not invent social media. They all won the lottery. Then, because previous winners have a significantly higher chance of winning again, they kept on winning! What a shit lottery! Why would anybody, not already a winner, gamble in a game like … Continue reading "Directed Incompetence"3 months ago Read more
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Blog postA couple of recent articles about animals being smart: Researchers find kangaroos can communicate with people. …and rats love driving tiny cars.. This one could be straight out of some #BugNet caper with Biggie, Spray, and co!! My prediction, once we put Neuralink / Neural Lace into their heads, they are never going … Continue reading "Tech from Singularity’s Children – #BugNet"4 months ago Read more
The Singularity's Children Series: As the Third Millennium dawns, the world is slipping beyond human comprehension. Citizens are bewildered and angry; kept in line only by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda. Leaders are in Denial, clinging to the illusions of an idealised past, unable to move beyond corporate greed and political charade. But an emerging movement of techno-optimists can see post-scarcity utopias glittering on the horizon and have started building a collaborative future for all of Singularity's Children...
Book One - Denial:
Keith knows the 21st century is no place for a moral backbone. Not even a corporate expense account and the occasional synthetic liaison can air-gap him from the blood on his hands.
With neural prosthetics giving voices to our animal cousins, Niato, the grandson of a Sushi chain billionaire, is recruited into Eco-Terrorism by a radicalized dolphin, beginning a cross-species partnership that might change the world.
Stella lives above a brothel on a nomadic, floating tuna farm. Her young life is brutal and precarious, she needs to find a tribe before she is consumed by the jaded world around her.
Denial is high-tech adventure set in a world of soulless algorithms, psychotic corporations, and floating ghettos. It is the first book in an epic story arc which takes the reader from a post-internet, post-collapse world, deep into a wildly post-human future.
ReImagination: to imagine anew; to form a new conception.
The 21st century is reaching middle age. Installations orbit the Earth and synthetic intelligences rule the digital. The Forwards have destroyed the Mesh. The Thalassocracy of New Atlantis lies shattered, reeling from multiple atomic strikes.
Might the dreams of better times have been nothing more than naive, figments of wishful thinking?
As the BugNet begins to stir, a few believe there may be hope yet...
ReImagination is the final book in an epic story arc which hints at possibilities beyond cynical exploitation, gross inequality, and mass manipulation through industrialised persuasive technologies.
In this final extravagant, action-packed romp, we find out if Niato, the Nebulous Kin, and the internet of animals can carry this vision of a better world to all Singularity's Children.
Technology. Adventure. Hope.
Singularity’s Children brings to life a world on the brink. A decade after economic collapse sent governments toppling like dominoes, the corporations are back on top. Intelligent machines do our dirty work, while the unnecessariat underclass suffocates beneath blankets of computer-generated propaganda.
Governments and corporations enforce a precarious status-quo, but technology is a contagion that won’t be contained. Beneath the radar, hacker Kin are beginning to scratch away society’s fragile veneer with the rogue tech escaping their Fabs.
Disruption picks up where Denial left off, continuing the subversive, fast-paced action:
Keith’s flirtation with corporate disobedience leaves him out of options. Without friends or funds, the Forward’s military machine looks like his only choice and ultimate destination.
King Niato has begun construction of New Atlantis, an Island utopia, and experiment in pan-species society. It is a beacon for the Kin who are laying the foundations of an alternate reality.
When Stella is dragged down into the human filth that underlies this new world order, can a vengeful dolphin, a wounded soldier, and two exiled hackers save her from the darkness?
Disruption takes us deeper into an action-packed riot of haves and have-nots; a vivid alternate future filled with Buddhist commandos, stolen Femto-tech, AI Sages, and Quantum Consciousness. It is a thrilling, mind-bending read—a provocative excursion into a near-future civilization struggling to survive the endless maelstroms technology is unleashing.
The Singularity’s Children Series: As the Third Millennium dawns, the world is slipping beyond human comprehension. Citizens are bewildered and angry; kept in line only by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda. Leaders are in Denial, clinging to the illusions of an idealised past, unable to move beyond corporate greed and political charade. But an emerging movement of techno-optimists can see post-scarcity utopias glittering on the horizon and have started building a collaborative future for all of Singularity’s Children…
Action Adventure and Techno-Utopian Manifesto.
Conflict is compelling and provocative—a romp through the alien landscape of our not-so-distant future.
The balance is shifting. The Forward Coalition is losing relevance, it knows the world is slipping through its fingers. But Nebulous and the Kin are still too weak to confront the old bulls, who, cornered and confused, are at their most deadly. Can the torrent of fantastic technologies emerging from the Klan’s Fabs bring about utopia as the optimists claim, or only speed the planet’s inevitable appointment with annihilation?
Cold wars are growing hot as governments lash out at what they don’t understand. Plutocrats and blue-eyed idealists face off across a planet bristling with micro-nukes, chthonic bio-machines, and weaponised hallucinations. Mankind’s million-year run will finally take it to the brink of an abyss with oceans of darkness awaiting above and below…
The fast-paced action ricochets the reader between neon-stained riots of urban flesh and idyllic tropical islands, where humans and their BugNet companions have built a pan-species utopia.
War is coming and Conflict crackles with the energy of an approaching storm.
Early in the Third Millennium, the world is slipping beyond comprehension. Mastery of technology is deepening society’s divides; generating fantastic wealth for a few, and trauma and suffering for many. People are bewildered by relentless waves of boom and bust; kept in line by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda.
A few techno-optimists see past corporate greed and political charade. They dream of a post-scarcity utopia glittering on the horizon—a symbiotic future for all Singularity’s Children...
But ancient demons are not easily slain. The world is tired. The internet is dying. Wars ravage the former western democracies. Religions whisper promises of simpler times, while the rising power of the ‘Way Forward’ bewitches with its synthetic siren’s voices.
Against this backdrop plays an epic action-adventure of vivid world-building; a rich fabric, woven from colorful characters—not all human—who draw you into a terrifyingly familiar world of technology, morality and hope.
Frequently funny, often irreverent, occasionally indecent—Singularity’s Children is Hard SciFi, Biting and Subversive.
The Singularity's Children boxset includes the first three books in the series.
High Energy, Big Ideas. Blockbuster Action and Wild Set Pieces!
Book One - DENIAL is a spectacular debut. Tense, intelligent science fiction, packed with ideas.
Debt, wars and inequality are pushing society towards collapse. It's a world desiccated by soulless algorithms, pacified beneath the battlesuit's boot and numbed by the bewitching voices of computational propaganda.
Keith knows the 21st century is no place for a moral backbone. Not even a corporate expense account and the occasional synthetic liaison can air-gap him from the blood on his hands.
Niato is radicalised when he is recruited by an exotic mentor at his birthday party.
Stella lives above a brothel on a nomadic, floating tuna farm. Her life is brutal and precarious, she needs to find a tribe before she is destroyed by the jaded world around her.
Technology continues a relentless march towards its approaching event horizon. Progressive thinkers must defy obsolescence to survive in the increasingly post-human world.
Singularity's Children is vivid worldbuilding. The desperate lives of its characters draw the reader into a terrifyingly familiar world only a butterfly flap away.
Book Two - DISRUPTION, Singularity’s Children Book Two, takes us deeper into an action-packed riot of haves and have-nots; a vivid alternate future filled with Buddhist commandos, stolen Femto-tech, AI Sages and Quantum Consciousness.
A decade after economic collapse sent the world’s governments toppling like dominoes, the corporations are back on top. Their AI farms have relieved society of the drudgery of work, leaving behind a broiling underclass precariat. The Forward governments pacify their rabbles with computer-generated titillation, while channelling legions of the desperate into overseas peacekeeping.
Keith’s reduced circumstances, following an impulsive experiment with corporate disobedience, leave him vulnerable to the Battlesuit which was always stalking him.
Niato’s island utopia is an experiment in pan-species cooperation and a beacon for the hacktivist kin assembling their alternate economy.
When Stella is drawn down into the human slime that underlies this new world order, can a vengeful cetacean, a wounded soldier and two exiled hackers save her from the darkness?
Disruption is subversive, fast-paced action. A provocative excursion into a near-future civilisation struggling to survive the maelstrom of post-human forces its technology is unleashing...
The Singularity's Children Series: As the Third Millennium dawns, the world is slipping beyond human comprehension. Citizens are bewildered and angry; kept in line only by vast programs of computer-driven propaganda. Leaders are in Denial, clinging to the illusions of an idealised past, unable to move beyond corporate greed and political charade. But an emerging movement of techno-optimists can see post-scarcity utopias glittering on the horizon and have started building a collaborative future for all of Singularity's Children...
Book One - Denial:
Keith knows the 21st century is no place for a moral backbone. Not even a corporate expense account and the occasional synthetic liaison can air-gap him from the blood on his hands.
With neural prosthetics giving voices to our animal cousins, Niato, the grandson of a Sushi chain billionaire, is recruited into Eco-Terrorism by a radicalized dolphin, beginning a cross-species partnership that might change the world.
Stella lives above a brothel on a nomadic, floating tuna farm. Her young life is brutal and precarious, she needs to find a tribe before she is consumed by the jaded world around her.
Denial is high-tech adventure set in a world of soulless algorithms, psychotic corporations, and floating ghettos. It is the first book in an epic story arc which takes the reader from a post-internet, post-collapse world, deep into a wildly post-human future.