About Michael Amos

Send me an email at mike [dot] amos at michaelamos [dot] net. As long as you're not trying to sell me something to enhance my bits, I'd love to hear from you.

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I was born in 1967 and grew up in various parts of the county of Kent in the United Kingdom. Educated at St. George's Church of England School, Gravesend, and Dover Grammar School for Boys, I went on to read Applied Biology at the University of Bath.

I live with my family in Oxfordshire, where I divide my time between the IT industry and writing. I have written articles for a variety of newspapers, magazines and web sites, on subjects as diverse as woolly mammoths and belly-dancing (believe me, you simply haven't lived until you've seen a belly-dancing woolly mammoth).

My previous fictional works include the short screenplay "Salesman on the Year, 2130", produced by Lunah Productions and funded by the Galway Film Council, Ireland, in 2004.

"Homeland", my first science-fiction novel, was published by Samhain Publishing Ltd in 2006. A cautionary tale from the Shopping Mall of Doom, it is a partly satirical but mostly daft take on the heady cocktail of paranoia and reckless consumerism eroding society. I am working on what can loosely be described as a sequel.

My first contemporary novel, "The Rocktastic Corduroy Peach", will be published in print by Samhain Publishing Ltd in March 2008. Set in my adopted home town of Oxford, it is an amoral tale of four dysfunctional men in an amateur indie-rock band. There are a surprising number of these in Oxford...

On the whole, I shouldn't grumble but, nonetheless, would like to lodge a formal complaint with God.