A Rush Of Green - O.C. Heaton & The Human Race Blog

Are You Feeling Smart?

1 Comment 09 May 2012

When’s the last time you interviewed for a job? It’s been many years for me and after reading a recent article in the Guardian about the interviewing approach at Google and other tech companies I’m quite relieved because I suspect there would be no job at the end of it for me.

Future Tech

Data Decay and the Chauvet Cave Paintings

0 Comments 30 April 2012

For all our advances in technology, particularly on the computing front, it was with some surprise that I read about one element of this recent revolution that actually seems to be going backwards. That is, data stored electronically decays!

Future Earth

What do Fracking and Iceland have in common?

0 Comments 24 April 2012

I have to say it’s been interesting to see UK energy policy taking shape over the last six months with forays into areas that ten years ago would have seemed preposterous.

Future Tech

Energy free speakers.

0 Comments 22 April 2012

Now here’s a neat piece of technology – a bamboo speaker for your i-phone from designer Anatoliy Omelchenko of Triangle Tree.

On Writing

Nights of Villjamur

0 Comments 17 April 2012

Its been a little quiet here on a Rush of Green but that’s because I was on a well earned break over Easter. One thing I was able to do was catch up on my reading and one novel I read moved me to write a review which is unusual for me. Nights of Villjamur [...]

Future Earth

It’s no longer about Climate Change

0 Comments 08 April 2012

I love podcasts and use them all the time – what busy person wouldn’t in today’s world and I’m no different although one downside is that yesterdays or last week’s news tend to be your current affairs.

Future Tech

PrintaPets

2 Comments 01 April 2012

I read this in The Economist and couldn’t resist. It’s brilliant. It will soon be possible to design and build household animals to order.

Future Travel

Iceland is one big movie set

0 Comments 27 March 2012

I watched a promo clip for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus the other day and immediately suspected some of it must have been shot in Iceland. A few clicks later my suspicions were confirmed.

Future Earth

Iceland has the world’s largest ecological footprint!

0 Comments 23 March 2012

Let’s get this straight. I’m a huge Iceland fan – the country that is! As many of you know I located most of my first thriller, The Human Race, there after a visit in 2001 and completely fell in love with everything …the people, the geology, the way of life, its peace – all combined [...]

Future Earth

The end is nigh – or is it?

0 Comments 19 March 2012

According to Mayan mythology a cataclysmic or transformative event will occur on 21st December, 2012. Exactly what is open to some debate but interpretations range from mankind undergoing ‘a positive physical or spiritual transformation’(whatever that is!), through to Earth’s collision with a black hole or passing asteroid, or with a planet called “Nibiru.”

On Writing

Where Sci meets Fi

0 Comments 12 March 2012

Last weekend I had the pleasure of reading PetroPlague, a first time thriller from Dr Amy Rogers. I came across the book through her blog, http://www.sciencethrillers.com/,a brilliant review site for all things to do with science based thrillers.

Future Tech

How smart is your paint?

0 Comments 07 March 2012

Paint has come a long way since 1880 when the Sherwin-Williams company announced that they had succeeded in perfecting the formula whereby fine paint particles would stay suspended in Linseed oil. It heralded the birth of modern mass produced emulsion paints and the world has been a brighter place ever since.

Future Earth

Man is all powerful. We cause quakes too!

0 Comments 05 March 2012

I’ve often alluded to the power of Mother Nature in my blogs and with good reason – it makes mankind look puny by comparison. And so we are but, collectively, we sure pack a big punch. However it might be even bigger than we all previously thought.

Future Earth

Iceland’s going to clean your dirty data!

0 Comments 23 February 2012

Were you involved in Greenpeace’s dirty data campaign against Facebook? If so a big slap on the back. Last December Facebook ceded defeat and announced its goal to run on clean energy in the future – in other words move away from coal power.

On Writing

Bloggers Block

0 Comments 15 February 2012

I, perhaps more than anyone, am qualified to talk about bloggers block. After all I took nearly ten years to write my first novel, The Human Race. During that period I wrote little and rarely, embracing any excuse that meant I could avoid writing a single word but secretly berated my inability to put the [...]

Future Travel

Iceland’s Very own Loch Ness Monster.

0 Comments 12 February 2012

Have you seen this video ( Iceland\’s very own Loch Ness Monster) doing the rounds recently. It claims to show a rather large snake like creature winding its way up the glacial river Jökulsá í Fljótsdal, in east Iceland.

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Reviews of The Human Race

Unputdownable. Yes, I know it's not a word, but it definitely applies here, anyway. That's the word I'm going with, to describe The Human Race by O.C. Heaton. - Hira N. Hasnain

An outstanding first novel from O.C. Heaton that catapults him into the Best Seller league… - Justine Bond

"This is an exciting, fast-paced read. The Human Race is a book that is very easy to forget to put down. Bring on part two!" - L. H. Bowers

"If you are looking for a well-plotted and well-written thriller to while away the hours of a long flight, this offering might suit you very well." - David Bryson, Amazon Top 50 Reviewer

For further reviews of The Human Race by O.C. Heaton click here.