Toby Weston: Is science fiction dead?




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Summary: Toby Weston is today’s guest on The Segilola Salami Show. Toby shares with us his journey to publishing his first book and we explore if science fiction is dead and what the future holds for the genre. I assure you, you need to click play now to listen to all that Toby Weston has to say.<br>  <br> About Toby Weston<br> <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/toby-weston-is-science-fiction-dead_.png"></a>Toby Weston is a British writer and technologist.<br> Toby’s Singularity’s Children books are witty action adventures grounded in science which take the reader on a journey into the fantastic possibilities of the near(ish) future.<br><br> His work weaves tense action with philosophy and explores the classic Sci-Fi memes of consciousness, utopia, and the technological singularity.<br> Before writing books, Toby worked as a parking attendant, spook, tour guide, software engineer and chef (if you count making sandwiches – to be fair, they were pretty damn good sandwiches!).<br> His academic background spans Software Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, Environmental Biology and Deep Learning.<br> He is currently based in Switzerland where he writes and works in the field of digital innovation.<br> You can <a href="https://twitter.com/weston_toby" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">connect with Toby on Twitter by clicking here</a>.<br>  <br> Giveaway by Toby Weston<br> <a class="e-widget no-button" href="https://gleam.io/nhHAK/book-one-of-the-singularitys-children-series" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book One of the Singularity’s Children series</a><br><br> <br> About The Segilola Salami Show<br> The Segilola Salami show is hosted by <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/about-segilola-salami/">Segilola Salami who is also an author, freelance writer and blogger</a>. <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/useless-warrior-princess-launch/">Her latest book is called Useless Warrior Princess</a>. Please <a href="https://amzn.to/2xPATaV" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">download a FREE copy of my children’s book Yetunde: An Ode to my Mother on Amazon</a>.<br> The show is set in a virtual cafe and is about books and publishing. The aim of the show is to be both educative and informative but in an entertaining way. Guests from all works of life come on the show to talk about the books they have read or written and how books motivated or inspired them. Listeners of the show get to discover new authors and new books as well as learn something new.<br> The show is published weekly on Tuesdays at 9 am GMT London. <a href="https://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/subscribe-to-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Please click here to subscribe</a> to be notified when a new episode is released.<br> If you would like to appear as a guest on the next episode of the Segilola Salami Show podcast, please<a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/podcast-segilola-salami/appear-as-a-guest/"> click here to book your slot</a>.<br> If you are able to, I would really it if you can <a href="http://www.segilolasalami.co.uk/support-the-segilola-salami-show/">support the show</a>.<br> If you are an author, blogger or book lover, please subscribe to my authors and bloggers <a href="https://eepurl.com/bPi2_f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">mailing list</a> to find out about new self-published books that need reviews. I send out monthly newsletters with details of authors and their books that need honest feedback.<br> The intro music used in this episode was <a href="http://www.chrislament.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">provided by Chris Lament</a>.<br> ***<br> I would love to know your thoughts on today’s episode Toby Weston: Is science fiction dead? Please leave a comment below.If you have found this blog post useful, you can subscribe to Segilola Salami's blog via email by visiting http://www....