GRANT THOMPSON Grant was born in New Zealand in 1950, but has lived most of what should have been his adult life here and there in Europe and North Africa, working at this and that. He took a degree in English and Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, where he also studied in the then new and tiny Drama Department. In London in the early seventies he worked in the West End as a stagehand on such unforgettable triumphs as Gone with the Wind (the musical) and No Sex, Please, We're British before moving to Tripoli, Libya for a couple of years. He has taught English Language, and high school English at St Steven's School in Rome. In London in the early 90's he was a freelance in desktop publishing, and now works in the publishing department of a Rome company which distributes satellite remote sensing imagery. He is still looking for a publisher for his science fiction novels. In Rome he has worked with the English Language theatre group The Rome Savoyards as stage manager, actor (Black Comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Midsummer Night's Dream) and director (Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth).