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in Leicester, The United Kingdom

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I'm currently pitching my 3rd novel, 'The Empathy Hack'. It's about nature, technology and empathy. If you're into the umwelt or webcams, they're in there too. Restarting in fiction when you haven't had an agent for 20 years is hard to do but I hope to find a friendly publisher.

My first novel was 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992, The James Tiptree Award, and the European Science Fiction Award). In 1994 I published my second novel, 'Water', and edited the anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994).

After that I turned to nonfiction: 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995); the cyberspace memoir/travelogue 'Hello World: ...more

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	Technobiophilia: Nature and Cyberspace 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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
	Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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
	Correspondence 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1991 — 7 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
	A Three-Ring Circus by Sue Thomas (Goodreads Author), Tony Visuals (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 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
	Hello World: Travels In Virtuality 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 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
	Rare Antique Silent Night [Hardcover] THOMAS, Sue 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Water by Sue Thomas (Goodreads Author), Michael Croucher liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994 — 4 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
	I Forgot To Forgive Myself it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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“It merely suggests that we stop wasting time hating technology and redirect that energy towards loving nature instead.”
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“We came to believe that we could concrete over the fields and design a better life for ourselves, free of nature’s wildness and uncertainties. But it’s very obvious now that this was the wrong way to go.”
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