Hi. I already have two (count 'em!) stars next to my name, so it's probably time to introduce myself.
I was born at an early age... but that's been done before, so I probably ought to skip to the relevant parts. I grew up in God's Own Country (the London Borough of Croydon), and moved to the Cincinnati area a few years ago, because of a woman. I have a daughter who is now 15 and a half months old*, so the Geek Dad intros are greatly appreciated; I often share them with my wife, even if she has no interest in rearing the actual episode. My interests include movies (
my DVD library currently stands at 542 titles and growing fast), reading,
photography, defending the Earth from space-aliens who want to eat your spleen, programming, and pedantically correcting people's grammar on the interwebs.
Politically, in Britain I was considered middle-of-the-road, maybe a hair right of centre. Which means that in America I'm a frothing-at-the-mouth liberal extremist left-winger.
In terms of SF, I have a love of space opera (Neal Asher, Iain M. Banks, Kevin J. Anderson) and cyberpunk (William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, Bruce Sterling), though pretty much anything is good. Especially if it includes giant bat-winged monkey-spiders. There aren't enough giant bat-winged monkey-spiders in contemporary fiction, I feel. If any EP contributors are reading this, get to work on that, would you?
*Offer only valid at time of writing. Subject to change without notice.
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