Eric Brown

"He has lived in Australia, India and Greece, where he ran a Youth Hostel for a time on Crete. He began writing in 1975 and his first published work was a play for children, Noel's Ark , in 1982. His stories have appeared in Interzone , Other Edens III , Zenith II , and the French best-of-the-year anthology Univers 1989. He lives in Haworth, West Yorkshire". [publisher's bumpf, Meridian Days , 1992]

"Eric Brown, the sci-fi author, has an allotment next-door-but-one to me in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. He loves growing Broad Beans. (And he has a dodgy knee)." --Shaun B.Ford (in a personal e-mail, 12 April 1997).