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Arthur C Clarke Award short profiles: Matthew de Abaitua
10/03/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Snowbooks first published Matthew de Abaitua's debut novel The Red Men in October 2007. Buy The Red Men in the USA - or Buy The Red Men in the UK  The novel is about a left-leaning journalist called Nelson who has had to sign up to work for Monad, a corporation that manufactures the Dr Easys model of security android which keeps London's streets safe. They have now created the Red Men series - slave-like virtual corporate workers - and Nelson gets put in charge of their virtual city with explosive results. Think Bladerunner/The Matrix stewed with the political verve and mutant DNA of Ben Elton.
The author Matthew de Abaitua' is editor-at-large for The Idler, a very cool British magazine with an anti-capitalist, green, anti-work slavery vibe going on. He doesn't currently work for Monad, but we see quite a few echoes of Nelson in Matthew (or vice versa).
MDA is also an editor for Channel4.com/film and knocks out Movie Rush, a weekly TV show for Film4. He was writer and presenter on SF:UK, a history of British science fiction broadcast on Channel 4 which was, in SFcrowsnest's opinion, rather good.
The film rights for The Red Men have been apparently been acquired by Shynola. Nice.
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