Books
“The Read Aloud Cloud” (Wiley, 2020) - now available wherever extremely bizarre introductions to cloud computing are sold!
Amazon, B&N, IndieBound, Walmart, Book Depository (good for international orders)
Finally, an explanation of the cloud that even your non-technical friends and family can understand. Featuring 165 completely insane full-page illustrations of cloud networking, elasticity, reliability, security, and much more. Oh, and it rhymes.
As a graduation gift (call it “Oh the Places You’ll Go” for engineering students), a cubicle conversation starter, or just a delightfully nerdy bedtime story for your kids, “The Read Aloud Cloud” will be the definitive introduction to the technologies that everyone uses and nobody understands. You can even read it silently if you want. But good luck with that.
Technical Writing
Forrest’s latest blog posts on cloud technologies and the emerging serverless space appear at A Cloud Guru or in the Cloud Irregular newsletter.
Short Fiction
Stories currently free to read online are linked.
“Perchance to Dream” - Daily Science Fiction, 7/12/2018
“Memory Foam” - Daily Science Fiction, 9/7/2018
“The Slide” - Daily Science Fiction, 9/27/2018
“The Honeypot” - Theme of Absence, 11/9/2018
“World War 2.8.41 Release Notes” - Daily Science Fiction, 1/7/2019
“Death’s Head in B Dorm” - Menacing Hedge, Winter 2019
- Nominated: Best of the Net 2019
“Ghost Runners” - Who Knocks Issue 1, Jan 2019
“The Girl of the Golden City” - StarShipSofa, May 2019
“Under The Hat” - Constellary Tales Issue 3, May 2019
- Reviewed: Tangent Online
“The Mark” - Mysterion, June 2019
“Empathy Bee” - Diabolical Plots, September 2019
- Reprinted in DP Year 5 anthology
- Reviewed: Tangent Online
- Reviewed: Quick Sip Reviews
“Russian Rhapsody” - Abyss and Apex, forthcoming 2020