Stephen Oram's Blog
November 19, 2025
Our Data, Our Future: Episode 2
Data Hoarding Hosting the short podcast Our Data, Our Future, with Robin Riback is proving to be a fascinating adventure. Because? Well, we’re keeping it under 10 minutes, focused on a topic around data and from our different perspectives. The challenge – making it succinct, worth watching and with a least one ‘big idea’. Episode…
November 14, 2025
AI and children’s mental healthcare
As part of my applied science fiction work, I was involved in a project to look at AI-driven tools in children’s mental healthcare. Recently, a paper about the project has been published. This is the abstract: Artificial intelligence may be able to improve the efficiency, accuracy and predictiveness of mental health assessments, and public perspectives…
November 6, 2025
Top Ten Winner
Well, this is good news… so pleased to be one of the top ten winners in the Dubai Futures Foundation short story competition, alongside other writers from around the world. https://www.dubaifuture.ae/future-sto... I have others to thank for this, including Prof Claire Steves of King’s College London for helping me think through the science behind it.
October 29, 2025
Fitzrovia Futures is LIVE!
The fitzrovia futures 2055 project that I’m involved in now has a website where you can find a short video about the project and links to events. If you live or work in Fitzrovia, London then please come along to our events. If you’re interested in the future of the area (30 years from now)…
October 14, 2025
Our Data, Our Future: Episode 1
You can watch the 9 minute video of us dropping ideas and thoughts about the future and data storage (not just technical ideas) on substack here. Come and join in the discussion…
October 12, 2025
Launch: Our Data, Our Future
I’m really excited to announce that New York based Robin Riback and I are launching a new short podcast called “Our Data, Our Future – A short podcast with big ideas” It will be a 7 to 10-minute monthly discussion about how, where, and why we preserve our data: that is, our electronic stories, our identity, and…
October 11, 2025
Creative Futures (& others)
Applied Science Fiction - what's new and where can you find it?
September 28, 2025
Interview on the ALLi podcast
Weirdly, I learn a lot about myself and my writing by being interviewed and this one is no exception… including my response to the question of how interested I am in using AI in my work! You can listen here, on the ALLi website
September 25, 2025
Brain Fruit on tour
From the 24th to the 27th of September, my new novella is on a review tour. You can see what the reviewers make of it by checking out their various blogs and Instagram accounts in the poster below.
September 1, 2025
500 “Brain Fruits” released today
Today 500 “Brain Fruits” are released by L’il Factory, using old printing techniques to birth a far future story. “A mind-bending, bio-digital fable that pulses with poetic strangeness. Oram’s Brain Fruit is daring, disorienting, and deeply human.” As the latest review from Josh M on NetGalley says, “A fruit falls and new life begins: a…
