I am a retired academic. I have published a number of books, mostly academic. I am now interested in writing for the general public, especially in bringing their attention to issues that affect us all. I have no axes to grind, rather my aim is to enable the reader to understand the issues and then make up their own mind. That being said, my interests lie in the future: in future technology, future food issues, future genetic issues, and future climate issues. My most recent published work addresses the problem of other (non-human) minds, those of animals and of future robots. (Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: the question of alien minds. Oxford University Press, 2008).
I am well aware of the difficulties in writing for the general public about complex issues. So I am trying out various approaches. This means that by books will not all be in the same style or genre. In this respect, I am a novice, looking for the way forward.
I live with the novelist, Penelope Farmer on a finca in the Canary Islands, where we farm, write, and entertain visitors (see Alastair Sawdays’s Special Places to Stay: Spain. www.sawdays.co.uk).