I am now doing most of my blogging etc. on a new site
Geoff Davis books in order
African Story – short story in PEN International New Fiction, 1984 (Quartet). Included Ben Okri, Tom McCarthy, Iain Sinclair. Edited by Peter Ackroyd.
Cow Boils Head – text generator software, 1985 (Micro Arts). Released on national Prestel teletext (a kind of pre-internet for nerdy TV watchers). The software generated versions of the ‘seed’ Cow Boils Head story such as Lizard Inflames World, Snake Boils Hair, Wolf Marinates Lips etc. The original story was about BSE (mad cow disease) and a vengeful cow. The computer text generator was exhibited and reviewed at the time. It was part of my extensive computer art output from 1984-85 under the name Micro Arts. There’s a website for Micro Arts.
There is also a book about Micro Arts:
Micro Arts History – Geoff Davis – many formats
Micro Arts Magazine – editor, writer, 1984. Page scans on the Micro Arts website
Nnn Goes Mobile – novel, 1993 (Juma Print). Cyberpunk, mildly satirical. Distributed by Forbidden Planet. Came with a game on disk, coded by Robert Mettler.
Death in the Bubble World – novella , 1997-2000 (Em Publishing). Serialised in book/music periodical Em 1,2 and 3, edited by Karl Sinfield. A literary book series (like Granta) with a music cassette and later CD of new bands etc. Also included Hanif Kureishi and others. Bubble World online animation by Paul Greenfield.
In this story I invented an electronic currency Easy Money Units EMUs, a cryptocurrency (stored in ‘handbags’) used for universal basic income UBI (free basic amount of money for all, not means tested). This topic is the background economy of my new novel which will be serialised here. See www.easymoneyunits.com
Computer Hybrid Fiction (in progress) – text and art, due 2020. This will be from my current AI research at University of the Arts London (UAL CCI at Camberwell).
Calm as a Dead Clam – multimedia fiction, 2003 (Middlesex University). Demonstration of zooming interface (ZUI) software developed in Masters Electronic Arts. See here for more on the zooming interface design. This ZUI software was later commercially released as Story Lite (and later Story Turbo) and Notes Story Board v2.2 (current) – see www.notesstoryboard.com
Walk in the Woods (temporary title, work in progress) – novel due 2020. Uses the electronic currency EMUs introduced in Death in the Bubble World as the basis for a future Universal Benefit System UBI. Various adventures with a small family in this future world. This will be serialised on this site first.
Non-fiction – various other books written or edited (various How To… books, The Green Eco Building Book, Interior Design manuals, commercial software user guides etc.) and copy for websites on many subjects, plus shorts and bits and pieces used in multimedia etc. Some of these are to be republished by Leopard Print Publications 2020.