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New Books
PATTERN CITY 2025
Pattern City: 1 The Circular River
My new novel out late 2025, now at publisher at the editing stage.
“When an unnatural disaster strikes, a woman must navigate a transformed world with her new adopted family and Botz robot companions. Their chance for escape lies in the luxury orbital habitats above – but her decision to leave her volatile son behind with a hacked military robot unleashes chaos that threatens everything.”
Part One will be released first.
There is a generative artwork inspired by the text. A still from it was exhibited at the Computer Arts Society CAS Exhibition 2023.
My 1990s fiction will also get reissued in digital format sometime or other. This is Death in the Bubble World, Nnn Goes Mobile, Pop Up, and some short stories. More info below.
Generated or processed texts
Above: MA4 Story Generator by Geoff Davis (Micro Arts MA4 1985)
MA4 Story Generator – work shown above, see Geoff Davis Micro Arts MA4 Story Generator
I have been experimenting with computer generated text for a long time. My first release was the MA4 Story Generator for home micros, which was also available on Prestel, the UK nationwide teletext system. This was an endless generator of new stories from my original short story ‘Cow Boils Head’ about Mad Cow Disease BSE (another virus / prion – all of England’s cows were incinerated – so why do people moan about wearing face masks?).
This was exhibited at the LMFC London in 1985 and released nationally on Prestel, the pre-internet video text service in the UK (also available on ships).
Geoff Davis and Micro Arts have had several exhibitions.
See also my new format computer art from Micro Arts on elementum.art
Free BOOK
Geoff Davis free book – FICTION OR FILING NLN Short version
Original essays from 2003, including ‘Computer Use and Abuse’ which is a discussion on filing and evolution, ‘Black Bag Theory’ and other unsupported digressions.
Past Trees
These are my physical print books. The serialised ‘Death In The Bubble World‘ (Em Publishing 1997-2000) and Nnn Goes Mobile (Juma Print 1994) are due out in 2025.
PEN International New Fiction (Quartet), edited by Peter Ackroyd. My short African Story. Lots of new writers, Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Clare Boylan, Meira Chand, Tom McCarthy, Iain Sinclair.
Nnn Goes Mobile, novel (Juma Print 1994). Cyberpunk. Distributed by Forbidden Planet. Came with a computer game on disk, coded by Robert Mettler, which was on Arts Council UK Hub – this was released on a disk see below.
Death in the Bubble World
Death in the Bubble World is a short novel published by Em Foundation in the late 1990s, serialised in the books Em 1,2 and 3, edited by Karl Sinfield. Illustrated using 3D art by Sarah, also used on the cover. Death In The Bubble World (G Davis 1997) is now on this site
Em was a literary book series (like Granta) with a music cassette and later CD of new bands. Also included Hanif Kureishi and others. There was a Bubble World online animation with music and effects designed by Paul Greenleaf (see images below).
Easy Money Units – EMUs.
In the Bubble World story I invented an virtual currency called Easy Money Units or EMUs. This was stored in ‘handbags’ and was used for various dodgy deals conducted by small-time fraudsters, criminals such as Mr Banks. At the time I thought it was a least plausible thing I had ever put in a story. So when cryptocurrency came along it seemed equally ridiculous.
The Green Eco Building Book
The Green Eco Building Book (Story Software). This came from my time developing and building eco houses. I was a founder member of the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Commission SDC (now nonexistant, that’s not very sustainable). 500 pages, everything from dry stone walling to solar power. Was converted into a large website BuildingDIY.com
Creativity Support Software CST – story board app
Story boarding and notes software with a large canvas and zooming interface (ZUI) software invented in my research Masters in Electronic Arts at Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University. See original notes on the zooming application.
This software is commercially released as Story Lite (text only version) and Notes Story Board v2.2 (images and text, current version). Story Turbo has been retired.
Calm as a Dead Clam multimedia fiction using the new zooming interface with sort (Middlesex University).
Music
Project Metavista with Patryk Jaworski. This is new – an EP or album will appear sometime or other.
This music was used on new format ‘3D Cube’ art on elementum.art
Piano Bar with music (turn ‘sound on‘ in the linked page) was released on Expanded Art in 2023. This was a fundraiser for the Computer Arts Archive. The animation was a generative art piece from the 1984 collection MA1 “Abstract Originals” by Geoff Davis / Micro Arts. The music is from an ambient album Geoff recorded in the 1980s/1990s.