![]() ![]() ![]() During this time I worked with one of my three brothers for a firm which made steel furniture, ran a card school, and for which it seemed the prerequisites of employment were an ability to drink huge quantities, accept minimum wages, and make tea. ![]() On leaving school there was a hiatus of a few years while a grappled with the adult world. I started writing SF and fantasy at the age of sixteen, perhaps motivated by a compliment from my English teacher for a story I had written in class after an overdose of E.C. It also helped that my parents (a school teacher and a lecturer in applied mathematics) were also SF aficionados. My love of the strange began, as it does with so many children, with my hearing The Hobbit, and a later reading Lord of the Rings. I was born in 1961 in Billericay in Essex, had an uneventful childhood and an inadequate and detestable schooling courtesy of the comprehensive reform that would have us all equally uneducated. The autobiography below was provided courtesy of the author. Having over eighteen books published he has been accused of overproduction (despite spending far too much time ranting on his blog, cycling off fat, and drinking too much wine) but doesn't intend to slow down just yet. Neal Asher lives sometimes in England, sometimes in Crete and mostly at a keyboard. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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