Anthony Fucilla
Anthony Fucilla is a London-born philosopher, lecturer, and science fiction author whose books explore metaphysics, epistemology, science, artificial intelligence, and theology. Since his debut collection Quantum Chronicles in the Eleventh Dimension first appeared in 2008, he has written ten books, the newest being Proxima Centauri b: The Alien Mind (2025).
Born in London in 1975, Anthony writes fiction as a philosopher. In a 2019 Eating Authors feature, novelist Lawrence M. Schoen described him as known chiefly for short stories built on philosophy, with a focus on metaphysics, epistemology, AI, and theology. Schoen was first drawn to his work by a social media post promising that Androids and the Gods would redefine metaphysics.
The first edition of Quantum Chronicles in the Eleventh Dimension gathered six futuristic tales. In “Metallic Cosmos,” Clegg Willis, one of the few humans still alive, lives in a world ruled by A-class robots, while in “Molecular Alteration,” the elderly Jack Webster dreams of rejuvenation, the closest thing to immortality. Anthony has called the aging story the most challenging of the six, a tale woven through with philosophy and theology. Its 2023 edition expands the collection to thirteen stories.
Quantum Chronicles 2 followed with thirteen more tales, among them “The Man Who Awoke Yesterday” and “Mind Blitz,” and returned in a new edition in 2024. Anthony promoted both books at a run of Waterstones book signings across southern England, from Croydon and Woking to Guildford, Dorking, and Maidstone, between 2010 and 2013. In August 2014 he signed them at Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention at ExCeL London.
Imperial Planet (2016) opens by asking whether reality and consciousness can ever be truly defined, or whether the cosmos exists for us only as our minds construct it. In “Of Space and Time,” a story from Silent Earth (2018), a robot dreams, for the first time, of a theory it was never taught: the Big Bang.
In the novel The Mars Time-Project (2019), Marcus Harlan makes Martian history as the first man to travel ahead in time, and returns to discover that he can see into the future. Tessa B. Dick, fifth wife of Philip K. Dick, reviewed the novel favorably and recommended it to readers who enjoy philosophical treatments of science fiction’s classic themes, from corrupt leaders to mind control.
Androids and the Gods (2020) opens with a chilling rewrite of Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, under which androids are programmed to acknowledge a one-world government as their only god. Beyond Earth’s Horizon (2021) takes mathematics as a guide to reality and to the possibility of more than three dimensions of space. The Golden Moons of Jupiter (2022) collects “Ultimate Robot,” “Life Force,” “From Under the Eye of a Machine,” and “Galactic Voyages,” and Under a Martian Sky (2023) returns to a colonized Red Planet.
Proxima Centauri b: The Alien Mind imagines humanity’s first voyage beyond the Solar System. A fusion-driven spacecraft accelerates at 1 g for fifteen days to cruise at 4.24 percent of light speed, and its crew lands on Proxima Centauri b, a tidally locked world of endless day and endless night, where terraforming drones begin converting its thin, toxic atmosphere into something breathable.
He also lectures on these themes. In November 2025, Space Renaissance International, the space-settlement advocacy group led by its president, our Adriano V. Autino, released his lecture How Robots Will Terraform Mars. It explains how orbital mirrors, greenhouse gases, and imported algae could darken and thicken the Martian atmosphere until liquid water can exist on the surface.
He has been a guest of the Malaysia-based World Talent Economy Forum (WTE Forum), led by its president, Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana. In 2020 he discussed Science and Theology, joined Tom Ross and our Brent Ellman for What We Need to Talk About: AI, and weighed humanity’s prospects with Syed Majid Ullah Khan in MARS: Future on the Red Planet.
For Radio MITWS India, he read extracts from his Mars fiction in The Red Planet: Episode 2 (2021), and in 2023 he delivered the invited talk AI, Consciousness and Matter, on the structure of existence (also in Part 1 and Part 2).
Anthony’s science fiction was featured in the US publication The Magazine of the Future (2020), and the Brainstorming Network Group, a volunteer network devoted to brainstorming, showcases his books.
His creative work extends to the screen. He was associate producer of The Big I Am (2010), a British gangster film starring Michael Madsen, Leo Gregory, Vincent Regan, and Steven Berkoff, and producer of the series The Universe of Myron Evans (2009), which sets out to explain the universe through simple geometry.
Anthony is an avowed transhumanist and an editor of the transhumanist wiki H+Pedia. In his #IAmTranshuman profile, he described technological progress as a natural stage in human evolution, arguing that “science and technology can eradicate a vast array of problems like disease.”
Anthony has traveled widely and relishes cuisines from around the world. As he told Lawrence M. Schoen, one of his most memorable meals came after a hectic day at Loncon 3, when he and his wife discovered an elegant Chinese restaurant in central London.
Announcing a new 2026 edition on X, he framed the question that drives his writing: as machines grow more intelligent, what, if anything, lies beyond matter, code, and calculation?
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