But they’re not so easy to ignore especially the ones experiencing “the wake up.” The idea was that they could work hidden in society’s plain sight, allowing humanity time to get used to the fact of sentient machines.īut it’s all too easy for others to take advantage of those who live on the edge. He’s a member of the SOA, and lives in Europe.īrobots is substantial science fiction with gay characters told across three continuous books. With his debut work, Brobots: The Complete Source Code (2019) he became a top 20 science fiction author in the LGBT category. After this period some health difficulties led to a dramatic career change. This got him bar-crawling Nashville and sharing sidewalks with alligators in Florida while on business trips to meet scientists. He then moved into what was still then the new area of website managment putting sites live for names like Nature and OUP. In his early career he became managing editor of a small but mainstream UK web tech magazine.
His mostly self-funded MA, in 1998, drew on everything from feminism to film studies and the latest in AI philosophy to explore why our culture developed a myth of cyborgs, and what that tells us about ourselves. His dissertation was a very well received script for a play. He studied at Bath: a place known for its emphasis on skills development during study of arts subjects. At fourteen he was sent to a military training corps for toughening up. By the time he was nine, his father became disabled.
His father was a biker, his mother a supermarket assistant. At five his family moved to the south coast–a small town close to both a run-down port city and a stunning national park. Trevor Barton spent his early years on the isle of Thanet, Kent. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.
Trevor joins us from the UK and tells us how he got into writing and the experiences he has had in that process. The Two Gay Geeks 🏳️🌈 have a chat with Trevor Barton, author of “Brobots”.
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