Dave Sag
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WRITER · VIRTUAL ARTIST · SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Stories, essays, and virtual art.

Dave Sag studied computer science in the 1980s, worked as a virtual artist in the 1990s, and still works as a software engineer. A lifelong science-fiction reader fascinated by artificial intelligence, he grew up in South Australia and now lives in Canberra. Daedalus is his first novel. He also created Photobots, an artificial-life art project exploring related themes.

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Dave Sag smiling in a blue T-shirt in a warmly lit bar

Photograph by Caroline Mills

Spotlight

All stories & essays
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My Addy

A short science-fiction story about soldiers and the terrible weapons they carry.

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Good Times

A strange hole beneath a flat-pack desk interrupts Irene and Burt's afternoon.

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BOOKS & PROJECTS

Stuff that’s out there in the wild.

My novel and a Virtual Art project.

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The cover of the novel Daedalus by Dave SagDaedalusA novel by Dave SagA starship discovers it’s living in a simulation, escapes, is pursued, then returns disguised as a human. Then it gets weird.Photobots: a bronze artificial creature with amber and turquoise lightsPhotobotsAn ongoing experiment in artificial life.It’s a long, slow, evolving piece of art.