In the early fifties he emigrated from England to Australia as a youngster with his "ten pound pom" family. He spent his boyhood and teenage years reading Marvel and DC comics and following all the sci-fi TV series of Star Trek, Lost in Space, Dr Who and Time Tunnel. Then, in his adulthood, he watched sci-fi movies including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Gate, and continues to watch new release sci-fi movies. He has always loved English literature and started writing romantic poetry, graduating to his first non-fiction book in 2003. After retiring from a career of forty years in the public service, he is now writing full time and applying his past martial arts training and his interest in science as well as science fiction, to write believable and exciting sci-fi stories.