A technology geek who's been trying to finish his debut novel for fifteen years now. In the meantime, I also became a software developer and picked up a wife and two daughters. I work remotely from a small New Zealand town called Raglan, and spend my free hours "throwing the kids around" (as they call it), playing video games, surfing, gardening, golfing, and trying not to think about death.

The Light has been a long and arduous journey, with many false starts, and at least two front-to-back rewrites. A single nugget of an idea kept me going: We build a powerful new AI, we expect it to be another useful new tool, but then that first moment of contact turns out to be something wholly and wildly unexpected...

I also like moral philosophy. Like, what if there are correct answers to moral questions? What if the question 'what should I do with my life?' has a 'best' answer? What if we built something that could answer it?

Progress in AI has really been taking off. My daughters have a very interesting century ahead!