Steve Aucock

Steve’s imaginative stories explore a humorous and whimsical future where androids are integral to human life, blending advanced robotics, biotech, and AI with a playful, slightly twisted perspective.

From his home in Dorset, England, he envisions a world where these artificial beings serve as both helpers and companions, leading to emotional and behavioral shifts that are amusing or thought-provoking.

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Is it a coincidence that Steve lives in the same village where Douglas Adams gained inspiration for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Perhaps there's something in the water.

'What genre are your novels?'

Speculative fiction essentially takes what we know now, and projects it into a future or a situation that may occur.

The three components of synthetic, human-like machines are here in 2026: bio-technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence are in their early stages, but progress is rapid and quantum leaps of understanding and application occur.

My stories are set in the near future, some of the characters are androids or robots (there is a difference, you know!), and the human characters sometimes struggle in their interactions with these synthetic beings whose only purpose is to serve us.

I explore the human aspect: the characters' desires and needs, the dichotomy of irrational humans dealing with logical artificial intelligence, the intense focus of the synthetic beings, and the humour of the situations.

My timeline begins around 2050, but if you are looking for faster-than-light travel, weird aliens or absurdly-named planets, you won't find them here.

Happy reading...

Steve

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