Tim's Artificial Life
a blog by Tim Taylor
When Victorian Locomotives Came to Life: Rediscovering the Novels of W. Grove
06 Oct 2026
Concerns about autonomous machines, artificial intelligence and technological systems escaping human control can seem distinctly modern. Yet more than 130 years ago, an almost forgotten writer publishing as W. Grove explored these ideas through two extraordinary science fiction novels: A Mexican Mystery, published in 1888, and its follow-up, The Wreck of a World, published in 1890.
Read full article »A new website, at last!
23 May 2020
Revamping my old website has been on my to-do list for a very long time! After 15 years of service, it was certainly in need of some modernisation. I finally found some time during the COVID-19 lockdown to develop a completely new site.
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