Hello and welcome to my website. I’m currently working on a short sci-fi story called ‘Bright Future’ which will be available to buy as a paperback and ebook on Amazon. The editing is into the final stages at the moment (hopefully) and the blurb for the back and the back cover will be along soon. I’ve always been a bit worried about the future and the questions that new technology will bring with it. My latest work was inspired by a stint of working on the self-scan tills at a supermarket. I couldn’t help but wonder if they were the first step toward a darker future for all of us. I first wrote ‘Bright Future’ around five years ago and reading about the protagonist’s struggle against AI and how his life has been forever changed by it, I find it really sad how quickly the concept has dated. Sci-fi should remain Sci-fi, but every day it seems that we become more and more determined to make Science fiction into Science fact. Anyway, I hope you enjoy my story when it comes out.
Bright Future
Published by John Payne
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site. My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne. View all posts by John Payne
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 