David Thorpe, writer David Thorpe, writer

Fun stuff

Here's some random weird things.

Watch out! There are hybrids about!

Avoid catching Creep! - follow my advice! (click the play button - you'll need the Quicktime plug-in)

Hybrids for machines

In the future, novels will be written for machines to read. When we have merged with machines, some hybrids will have barcode scanners. For their benefit here are the first few pages of Hybrids in barcode language.

Barcode version of Hybrids

This means Hybrids is the first novel to be published in barcodes. Awesome, eh?

(Now, presumably, novels will begin to be written by machines... Maybe some already are!)

Cartoons

A couple of strips you might like:

Managing Hell (click for a selection), a comic strip, which used to appear fortnightly in FM magazine

Managing Hell cartoon number 3

Public Servants (click for a selection), a satirical comic strip, which used to appear fortnightly in Public Servant magazine.

Public Servants cartoon number 21

Art by Matt Buck in both cases. We'd love to continue these in other mags if anyone wants to commission us!