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This was my winning entry for the Doctor Who Darksmith Legacy competition:

50 words about why I would make a good Spinebreakers Sci-Fi Editor:
Simply this. My manic obsession for science that delights yet evokes a drugged madness in me and a love so intense for literature and the beauty of language that causes me to lose myself in words. There are no boundaries, no rules and Imagination is infinite. This is my ethos.

My question to the one and only doctor:
In all the paradoxes and paradigms, all the dimensions folded and twisted, in all the parallel universes, spaces between spaces and in the midst of dark matter, neutrinos, leptons, photons and gravitons, have you ever stopped to wonder, just for a nanosecond, whether you should give fixing your chameleon circuit a shot?

Books I love:
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
The Liar by Stephen Fry
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Rings by J.R Tolkein
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Owell
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Anne Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

Top five authors:
Aesop, Jules Verne, Dr. Seuss, Arthur C. Clarke and the guy that scared me everynight as a kid, R.L. Stine

Favourite genre/s:
Romance with a touch of Mystery, a splash of Horror, a dollop of Sci-Fi, a pinch of Action and Adventure, drizzled over with a good helping of Crime, infused with controversies, politically incorrect notions and the future just for that extra kick.

I’m currently reading:
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

            

What’s on my bookshelf:
A few of my precious gems are:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Enduring Love by Ian McEwan, Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, Harry Potter by J.K Rowling, Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare, Archangel by Robert Harris, Psychopathology of everyday life by Sigmund Freud, Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Doctor Who: Logopolis by Christopher H. Bidmead, The restaurant at the end of the Universe by Douglas Adams, Paradise lost by John Milton, As Lusiadas by Luis de Camoes




Current location:
At a dusty, paper sprawled desk within a small, dimly lit room in the heart of London

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