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Adrian Stride

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Adrian Stride lives in the New Forest, England, where he writes comic speculative fiction about history, humanity and the absurdity of a species that considers itself reasonably well organised.

He is dyslexic, which has made writing slower, more deliberate and occasionally dependent on discovering that a sentence has rearranged itself when he was not looking.

His first encouraging experience of English at school came when a teacher praised an original story as entertaining, clever and funny. He was then reported to the headmaster and caned for plagiarism. The accusation left the more lasting mark.

His debut novel, The Trivial Matter of the Universe, follows Felix Culpa, an ordinary nobody, and Alfred, an immobile artificial intelligence with a
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Average rating: 4.33 · 12 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Trivial Matter of The U...

4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — expected publication 2026 — 4 editions
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011
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Fashion (Imbala Book 2)

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013
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The Trivial Matter of the Universe by Adrian Stride
"Personally, I enjoyed this book very much. With the combination of adventure and sci-fi, the story follows multiple points of view expertly. From Marriage, Death, and Birth finding physical bodies, to Alfred trying to escape prison, and to Felix trav" Read more of this review »
The Trivial Matter of the Universe by Adrian Stride
"This was so good! While reading I felt like the first time I picked up a Discworld book. There is clever wordplay and witty insights, great banter, and really fun characters. Highly recommended if you're into either Discworld or The Hitchhiker's Guid" Read more of this review »
The Trivial Matter of the Universe by Adrian Stride
"4.5* Rounded Up

I loved this book. I laughed out loud several times to the annoyance of hubby, who also had to listen to me quoting bits of it. If I had to pitch this book I'd probably say:

"Imagine a cross-universe version of Quantum Leap but with add" Read more of this review »
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“Entanglement immediately found a loophole but, at present, is under a non-disclosure agreement.”
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“I will come to your room and discuss this matter,” King Menelaus said to Helen in a strong, masculine voice, proving that, despite the fact he was being dragged there by his ear, he was going ‘voluntarily”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe
tags: humour

“Octavian was big, big in the same way a silverback gorilla is when you realise the glass between you and it isn’t just clean, it’s absent.”
― Adrian Stride

“Your original saved in Hooks:

It’s not that Felix can’t die, in fact he’s getting rather good at it, it’s much more that he had a better post-death recovery rate than most people.”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe

“Your original saved in Hooks:

It’s not that Felix can’t die, in fact he’s getting rather good at it, it’s much more that he had a better post-death recovery rate than most people.”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe

“I will come to your room and discuss this matter,” King Menelaus said to Helen in a strong, masculine voice, proving that, despite the fact he was being dragged there by his ear, he was going ‘voluntarily”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe
tags: humour

“The problem with almost is that it is only as good as the person packing the parachute.”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe

“The third law of AI sentience (The Trivial Universe website)

A sufficiently large dataset is indistinguishable, from an outside perspective, from sentience.”
― Adrian Stride, The Trivial Matter of the Universe

“Octavian was big, big in the same way a silverback gorilla is when you realise the glass between you and it isn’t just clean, it’s absent.”
― Adrian Stride

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