About the Author
Nominated for The Whitbread Prize, first novel category 2005.
Runner-up in the Saint Andrews Prize for the Environment 2008.
Won the ITAC (Washington DC) International Excellence in Telework Award 2001.
Described by Brian Aldiss in The Times and The Guardian as "that distinguished futurist" 2007.
Inventor and promoter of FOODTUBES, a major, global CO2 saving, pipeline-capsule transport system proposal, 2008.
Currently writing The Alchemist's Lad - a time-shift comedy featuring Isaac Newton.
Noel Hodson has read popular science, which underpins his novels, for five decades. His career spans twenty-five years advising businesses, innovators and inventors, including a partnership with Wolfson College, Oxford focused on local science-parks. He is among the pioneers promoting Telework internationally to major employers, with clients including The World Health Organisation and Transport for London. He wrote the seminal Economics of Teleworking in 1992 and Teleworking Explained (Wiley & Sons) in 1993 and co-led two significant pan-European Information Society EC projects. He has worked at and from home in Oxford for thirty years. Noel has an active, current interest in transportation and environmental matters and in national economic and taxation issues including Land Valuation Taxes.