Welcome to my worlds
I write science fiction. There are worlds and space ships, technology and gadgets, but my stories are very much about the people that bring those worlds to life.
I love stories that immerse me in other worlds as if I lived there. I love complex, larger-than-life characters who are credibly driven by their own inner logic – heroes and heroines in their own stories. Even the bad guys. And I love the everyday influence of far-out technology. Not gizmos to be set on a pedestal and geeked over, but tools to be used, part of the furniture, taken for granted like computers and cell phones today.
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I post updates here on an occasional basis – writing progress, new releases, promotional deals, and the odd article on the writing and worldbuilding process. No more than a handful of times a year. If you want to stay in touch, please enter your email address here.
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About this time last year I had to set up a new website. I’d used Webs since 2014, then they got taken over by Vistaprint. After three years of occasional messages that web sites would be migrated (coming soon) they finally decided that helping website owners with any kind of migration tools was too much…
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Major excitement at reaching a big milestone late April. The first draft of The Videshi Dilemma is complete, at 106k words. Now the fun part’s done, it’s on with the real work of editing, revising, getting feedback, revising some more … I expect this to last into early 2025 before I can start thinking about…
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Since settling into proper “first draft” mode back in October, progress on The Videshi Dilemma remains on track at the moment. However I’m reminded again of something I’ve noticed from previous novels: I’m a slow writer. This is not a reflection of raw writing speed. When I’m on a roll I can comfortably knock out…
Recent website updates
July 2026: Material added to the Videshi world in the workshop.
Ian S. Bott, Writer and artist 