Matthew De Abaitua

He recounted the story of this whole period in his 2018 literary memoir Self & I,[3] which was described as "erudite yet hilarious" by The Observer[4] and was shortlisted for the New Angle Prize.

His short story "Inbetween" was published in the bestselling anthology of rave fiction, Disco Biscuits.

In 2001, he wrote and presented SF:UK,[6] a low-budget documentary series on the history of science fiction for Channel 4.

His second novel IF THEN (Angry Robot, 2015)[8] explored the use of social monitoring and algorithms to replace market mechanisms in the administration of the British town of Lewes.

The novel also drew upon the First World War experiences of science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson, philosopher Pierre Teilhard De Chardin and John Hargrave, the founder of the radical interwar camping movement The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.