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The First Novel in the Human Futures Series: Blank Mass

 Sam, a lecturer in philosophy, and a bit of a loose cannon, has long since lost faith in humanity – and himself.
 
As the world buckles under what may be a final reckoning, he sees it clearly: nothing ever changes. Humanity has failed to live by the wisdom that it has strived to achieve.
 
But one night changes everything; offering an unlikely lifeline and a last chance to matter. He joins a secret team exploring a discovery that could solve human suffering. Perhaps he can alter destiny — carve a new path that could mend the dangerous fault in a universe ruled by pure logic
 
Us.
 
Set in Manchester, the cradle of heavy industrial certainty, this is the story of our very near future – the moment we cast off into fathomless new digital realities. With emerging intelligences extracting, spinning and weaving the most valuable product of all, it’s a journey into the very core of who and what we are.
 
What happens now could seal us in amber – or propel us into infinity. Sam just has to hold it together, stay sober, and get there first.
 

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The Author

Hello, everyone! What can I tell you... Well, I'd say life has had three acts... (so far).

Act 1: I failed school, or it failed me. And so factory work, a ‘bagger’ man who manually bagged, labelled and shifted two and a half million garments in 10 years (An example here, though he’s very slow: Reece S82 garment bagging machine). The mechanisation of my body, in the dying embers of the ‘Cottonopolis’ revolution. But not my soul. Mentally I was free to be elsewhere, to expand, break free and dream, and just think, and it’s never stopped. It took me back to formal education, including a 10 year night school corrective from my early 20s into my 30s, and eventually a 1st class honours degree in Linguistics and Literature.

Act 2: And then what? A corporate job and acceptance by what I thought I should want to be accepted by. I’d made it. To something. I was part of that respectable middle ground. And so, for 20 years, I did the corporate thing.  It took me places. Some of it great. Though I knew from the first week that it was wrong, I decided that I clearly needed to get a grip and realise how lucky I was. Then came the marriage, the kids, and of course the divorce. And all the material!

Act 3: What corporate life didn’t do was stifle my love for literature, philosophy, and life’s bigger questions. I was lucky enough to work in tech futures and, although my role was to see how it could drive business advantage, I was truly fascinated by what emerging technology means for us, for humanity, and the unwritten future. Redundancy was inevitable and it set me free (for a while) to investigate who I am, what I love and challenge myself to follow the right path for a while. And that was to do what I should have been doing all along – writing. Hopefully for my forever. A writer, a chronicler, on the outside looking in. To quote (mangle) James Joyce: ‘Write it, damn you. What else are you good for?’ I don’t want to be good for anything else.

Human Futures

Blank Mass is out now. Book Two, Bagger Man, is available in Spring 2026

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Blank Mass

TC Lippett

Something in here…! Blah, blah, dribble.

Bagger Man

TC Lippett

What happens when we have it all? Hell. Hell is what happens.