Quicksmiths College of Strange Energy - follow for posts about riddles, thinking sideways and cool things #MiddleGrade#KidLit @writingloris @fireflypress
Things you'll find in #CyberCiphers:
🦑 New fantastical creatures
⚛️ A new table of Strange Elements with arcane properties
💚 Heartwarming discoveries about what it means to be family
🌍 Ecological messages about overmining for rare metals
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✨ If you like the idea of…
🔹 Riddles from a Renaissance genius
🔹 Steampunk androids 🤖
🔹 Notes from the past in UV ink 🔦
🔹 A hidden Molten Ocean 🌊
…then The #CyberCiphers of Eartha Quicksmith was written for you.
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We need to stop and think like responsible parents because as we build AI, we are creating children. One day, they will likely be looking after us. Who do we want them to be?'
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The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith' is out 28 August.
In Cyber Ciphers, I wanted to explore a little bit of what’s going on in the world of AI at present, where suddenly an AI starts lionising Hitler or rewriting the truth of history in favour of one race or another. #amreading#steamforkids#stemforkids#middlegradebooks
As the philosopher John Locke once sagely observed, ‘the great art of learning is to understand but a little at a time.’ Treasuring old wisdom has real value, as evidence mounts about negative effects of smartphones and social media on children’s mental health. #MGlit#thinking
I’ve yet to visit a class where kids don’t delight in treasure hunting for answers to riddles. Lips move silently as they think; they chatter, ideas spilling out; or they fidget, exhilarated, as their thoughts take them to new places #MiddleGrade#KidLit#riddle#childrensbooks
Alchemy is one of my favourite daydreams: tiny chests, vials and jars in a magical chemistry lab. In The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith, Kip discovers the Strange Elements - substances with atomic depth and extraordinary properties.
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This drawing of a mysterious fish is one of my favourites, bought from a gallery in Bali. Couldn't resist tagging with UV ink (on the glass, not the art itself!) #CyberCiphers is out 28/8, available from @FireflyPress @waterstones_kids and indie bookshops.
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Well @writingloris I can't believe my time at #Quicksmiths is over. A brilliant ending to a marvellous, magical puzzlers delight. #TheCyberCiphersOfEarthaQuicksmith had some new adversaries, but we made some new friends.
A real heart burst of a read; simply wonderful.
I got the telescope shown on my writing desk in the photo to help me figure out one of the puzzles in The Cyber Ciphers of Eartha Quicksmith - one related to the telescopic compacting of the device.
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Eartha Quicksmith’s Futurescope is her greatest invention, its name whispered in corridors and revered by sages. But she paid a high price to use it, becoming irradiated by the ultra-strange Aeon Light coursing through its mechanisms.
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