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Tony Ballantyne


Born
County Durham, England, The United Kingdom
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Anthony Ballantyne, is a British science-fiction author who is most famous for writing his debut trilogy of novels, Recursion, Capacity and Divergence. He is also Head of Information Technology and an Information Technology teacher at The Blue Coat School, Oldham and has been nominated for the BSFA Award for short fiction.

He grew up in County Durham in the North East of England, and studied Math at Manchester University before moving to London for ten years where taught first Math and then later IT.

He now lives in Oldham with his wife and two children. His hobbies include playing boogie piano, walking and cycling. ...more

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Three stories from my fascinating life

This week my wife and I finally watched the last episode of the TV series Edge of Darkness. We watched the first five episodes back in 1992 but were away in Paris visiting a friend when the sixth episode aired. We returned home to find our flat had been burgled. The video recorder containing the tape with the last episode was one of the things taken. How times change. Nowadays we can watch the las

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Average rating: 3.53 · 4,383 ratings · 639 reviews · 73 distinct works • Similar authors
Dream London (The Dream Wor...
3.30 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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Recursion (AI Trilogy #1)
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Capacity (AI Trilogy #2)
3.46 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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Twisted Metal (Penrose, #1)
3.54 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions
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Divergence (AI Trilogy #3)
3.42 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions
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Blood and Iron (Penrose, #2)
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Dream Paris (The Dream Worl...
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Midway
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Tower of Blood
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Stories from the Northern R...
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Series by Tony Ballantyne

Recursion Capacity Divergence
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Quotes by Tony Ballantyne  (?)
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“given that the answer to any problem you have is only a phone call away, why should people think for themselves any more?”
“Let me turn that around, Tessa. When they stop thinking, they stop being people.”
― Tony Ballantyne, Microcosms
tags: people, thinking
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“I began to walk. Not back to my room, but out, instead, out into Dream London. The stars were so heavy that the purple sky bulged in the middle, sagging down to pierce itself on the city spires.”
― Tony Ballantyne, Dream London
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