Machine Journey

By Richard Doyle

Machine Journey is a pamphlet of poems and flash fictions. Travel the road from Slough to Mars. Discover wild visions, strange tales and machine futures. Scramble your way to the perfect stroke.

 

I liked this short collection. Doyle has drawn on subjects that are niche and wide-ranging. They are quirky and infused with gentle humour and are a pleasure to read. Paul, halfmanhalfbook

 

Lists are a feature of many of Doyle's poems, and this serves to lull us into a methodical rhythm, pleasantly subdued for when something out of the ordinary appears. Fun, engaging and full of surprise. Vic Pickup

 

Doyle also interweaves and connects his writing to the works of other writers such as Robert Frost, expanding on their view or idea whilst at the same time showcasing his. I consumed each poem and flash fiction with pleasure, however some stand-out pieces for me include: 'The Writer', 'Scramblings', 'Storm on the Sea of Galilee ', 'The Stone Computer ' and 'The Death and Life of Robert Hooke'. Sylvia, libraryofsylvia

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Doyle
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215019696

Richard Doyle

Richard Doyle is an old-school SF fan who began writing seriously in 2001. He has a Diploma in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and collaborated on a book in 2006. He has had poems published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis and Sarasvati and  is a regular member of the Bristol Stanza Poetry Group. His debut pamphlet The death of the sentence was published in 2020. Two of his poems appear in the Bristol Stanza pamphlet The Weather Indoors (2021).

Book preview

Machine Journey

Film pitch published in the Bristol Stanza pamphlet The Weather Indoors (2021). Encounter with the Angel published in Friday Flash Fiction (https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/, Dec 2021).

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence ©James Lovelock, Penguin Books Limited, 2020.

Colossus – The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Code-breaking Computers ©B. Jack Copeland and Others, OUP Oxford, 2010.

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Publisher: Independently published.

Publication Date: March 2022

Copyright ©Richard Doyle 2022

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Contents

Robert Frost in El Puerto Del Sol

Problems

The Writer

Slough in my dreams

Openings

Scramblings

Film pitch

Storm on the Sea of Galilee

The Wooden Concorde

Tommy Flowers and the 10 Colossi

The Stone Computer

The Death and Life of Robert Hooke

Collision with a greenberg

The Pennytellers' Parade

The Art of the Pennytell

Encounter with the Angel

Detective

The Trouble with Spaceships

Music on her Mind

The Perfect Stroke

The experience of watching your garden grow gives you some idea of how future AI systems will feel when observing human life.

― James Lovelock, Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence