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Tony Ballantyne

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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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Rush for Insight

My favourite sketch on the recent series of SNL UK was the British Pork Sketch. I thought it was funny and absurd as I watched it, but what lifted it to genius level was the final reveal when everything suddenly made sense…

I love this sort of writing.

You can hear it in the song The Day Before You Came by ABBA.

It was all the way through the first series of Mad Men.

Robert McKee calls it the rush for

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Average rating: 3.54 · 4,423 ratings · 647 reviews · 77 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dream London (The Dream World #1) 3.30 avg rating — 911 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Recursion (AI Trilogy #1) 3.41 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 2004 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capacity (AI Trilogy #2) 3.46 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twisted Metal (Penrose, #1) 3.53 avg rating — 311 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Divergence (AI Trilogy #3) 3.42 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Iron (Penrose, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream Paris (The Dream World #2) 3.55 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midway 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tower of Blood 3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories from the Northern Road (Imaginings Volume 3) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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AI Trilogy (3 books)
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Quotes by Tony Ballantyne (?)

“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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Tony Ballantyne

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Rush for Insight

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108 posts
Tony Ballantyne's Blog

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