From there I took the Trans-Siberian railway to Japan. When I left the oilfields, I spent time on travel, first to East Berlin and Warsaw, then to Moscow and Leningrad. It was dangerous work, but well-paid, and it took me to places that outsiders rarely see, like the Rub-al-Khali of Arabia and hard-to-reach parts of equatorial Africa. I was aboard the Ron Tappmeyer, a rig that blew out in the Persian Gulf, killing 19 men. Writing novels has always played a part in my life, and I've tried to see the world enough to be able to write fiction with the help of personal experience.Īfter university, the US oil industry was booming so I went to Dallas, Texas, later on I worked on rigs in various parts of the Middle East and the war-torn heart of Africa. I studied astrophysics at Newcastle University, where I started the student science fiction society. I was born in Staffordshire, near Etruria, the place made famous by Josiah Wedgwood, but was brought up in Sydney, Australia and later in Lancashire, England.
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