about the author

An engineer, Richard N Philip has worked internationally in consultancy and industrial roles, from Asia to the Americas. Before Jimbo’s Assumption, his writing contributions addressed technical and academic readerships. His diverse interests extend from the history of science through statistical methods to current astronomical research. He is a resident of Worcestershire, in the English Midlands.

about the book

Homo sapiens: development is deviating from projections. With 10 billion Earth-years of galactic experience, the Intelligence, the ethereal presence led by the Energy Masters, discerns something special in this complex creature and its accelerating scientific capabilities.Their sub-processor and Earth project manager will surely explain. After 100,000 years with his client, the Homo sapiens, can 221 offer enlightenment?Jimbo, a hesitant hero, knew that Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital, was a great place to grow up and study science. Summer, 1996: pleasingly unexceptional, with good friends in a wonderful city. The recent creation of Dolly the Sheep gave him vacation work, cataloguing mathematical models. Happy days. Until his sleep is interrupted by the nebulous 221, obliging him to rescue the models from nocturnal thieves. A chase ensues, across and underneath the city, but armed gangsters are no match for Jimbo’s new night vision and his galactic minder, 221. The police are doubtful.221 tries to account for his client’s extraordinary progress, while the Energy Masters struggle from suspicion through bemusement to inconclusiveness. Fortunately, Jimbo participates, while he sleeps.A story of human development, described to our hero in 100 seconds. Meet an eclectic assortment of scientific wizards who created our modern world. Humour exists, galactically rare. 221 believes the human brain is the galaxy’s most complex machine, running on only 20 watts.Set in beautiful Edinburgh and the wider Milky Way.

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Jimbo makes it to The Table Read

Jimbo's Assumption, featured in The Table Read during September.Introduced by a great summary of the story, saying it “follows a student’s journey from ordinary life to cosmic adventure as he encou ........

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Our human imagination seems boundless to me. Is it expanding? How to measure it? Do we lose older ideas and insights as we progress? My readers will know that 221 regards the Homo sapiens brain ........

Jimbo's Assumption

A Publishers Weekly Select Feature on Jimbo's Assumption will launch on Monday, 29 April 2024. Regarded by many as the bible of the book business, PW can be accessed at: www.publishersweekly.com ........

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John Michell

          From around 1650 CE, a vital era in human advancement, known as the Enlightenment, unfolded over approximately 150 years. While its characteristics varied across regions and countries, in Eu ........

William Caxton

The Scientific Revolution lasted for just over a century, bounded in 1543 CE by the publication of Copernicus’s On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and Newton’s Mathematical Principles of Na ........

John Dalton

Mid-18th century England was tumultuous. Maybe not immediately obvious to the citizenry, but a time and place pivotal to human advancement: the inception of the Industrial Revolution. A conjunction of ........

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