Mparntwe

by Peter Wood

Mparntwe describes how two young friends change the world for the better with their involvement in the development of the first benevolent Artificial Intelligence. There is a gentle treatment of disability involving both the characters, Jarra and Mirrigan, who have adventures in a number of distinctly Australian settings – the outback near Alice Springs, and the Grampians Range in Western Victoria.
Mparntwe is traditional science fiction.

346 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 28, 2017

About the author

Peter Wood was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia in 1962. He grew up on a farm called M’sitwe in the Lomagundi area of the country, near Umvukwes, spending the best part of his childhood running barefoot through the untamed bushveld with his brother and sister Duncan and Mandy. It was a wild part of the world and the children were often gone from dusk to dawn, exploring the 13,000-acre property, climbing rocky kopjes, exploring caves and camping along the rivers. Despite a civil war that ravaged the land until the end of white rule in 1980, these were salad days and many of Peter’s and his family’s adventures are described in Mud Between Your Toes.

Peter went to Umvukwes Junior School and then Prince Edward High School in Salisbury (now Harare). After completing oneyear in the Rhodesian Light Infantry he left the country of his birth and moved to London, then on to Hong Kong where he now lives.
He has been granted Chinese nationality and a Hong Kongpassport, but still considers himself African to the core.