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Sue Thomas

Sue Thomas

Sue Thomas

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I write about life, nature and technology. I'm especially interested in digital wellbeing and the practicalities of integrating the physical with the virtual. I'm currently writing 'The Fault in Reality'.

My most recent book is 'Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age' (2017) practical ways to connect to nature without logging off. Other titles include 'Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace' (2013), a study of metaphors in nature and technology; 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004), a travelogue/memoir of life online, and the novel 'Correspondence' (1992), a story of transformation which was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Science Fiction Award. From 2005-13 I was Professor of New Media at De Montfort University and I'm now a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.
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corpse road

Also known as corpse way, coffin route, coffin road, coffin path, churchway path, bier road, burial road, lyke-way or lych-way. “Now is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide” – Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. A path used in medieval times to take the dead from a remote parish to the ‘mother’ church for burial. Coffin rests or wayside crosses lined the route of many where the procession would stop for a while to sing a hymn or say a prayer. There was a strong belief that once a body was taken over a field or fell that route would forever be a public footpath which may explain why so many corpse roads survive today as public footpaths. They are known through the UK.

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