My Glasgow cyberpunk short story FOREVER IN SCOTLAND has been reprinted by the Glasgow Review of Books as part of its ‘Future Glasgow’ series!

Set in a future where life can be extended forever (if you have the money), Scotland has banned all forms of immortality, physical and digital, following a violent revolution. Hacker Dana, in a fix and desperate for funds, takes on a risky mission to rob information from the country’s leading business Clan – her own family.

Forever in Scotland was first published by NewCon Press in the anthology ‘Night, Rain, and Neon’, which celebrated the popular 80s genre and was released on the 38th anniversary of SF’s first cyberpunk novel – one of my favourite books of all time – Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Read the full story for free here.

I step off the curb in Sauchiehall Street, Glesga, and cross the road into Temple Street, Kowloon.

The physical replica of the famous red gate hides the first of the record/projector banks that run Hope Street to Charing Cross, slicin out the crumblin Gothic dwellins of a gutted auld shoppin street and transplantin it to Hong Kong, the night market switcherood in its place.

The shimmerin projections of the Hong Kongers are lookin up from their end at sandstone tenements, black iron drainpipes, and meltin grotesques, the projected Scottish people marchin on through them, hunched and glad to be out the rain, dryin under the hot blowers doin their best to recreate a stiflin HK summer…

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