Alex 24 is out now
Alex 24, Grant Skelton’s speculative thriller about artificial intelligence, surveillance, identity, prediction and control, is available now on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
Grant’s Dispatches
Ideas, influences and notes from the world around Alex 24.
This is the factual editorial section of ReadAlex24.com. Grant writes here as the author of Alex 24; it sits outside the fictional Internal Security Directorate.
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Written by Grant Skelton
What happens when prediction becomes control?
Grant Skelton explores the question at the heart of Alex 24: when does a useful prediction begin to limit identity, choice and freedom?
George Orwell, 1984 and why Alex 24 begins in 2024
Grant Skelton discusses George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four, modern surveillance and why the speculative thriller Alex 24 is set forty years later.