Here was where I grew up and found direction. With my college paper I managed to get myself into a high-tech machining company. At that time my only successes as far as writing was concerned were to win a snack and sandwich toaster for a rhyme, and five pounds for a story about adolescent suicide. From this company I went with a breakaway company which went through various ups and downs before collapse which, incidentally, again came after I left. While I was at this company I began writing again and produced a fantasy book which is still gathering dust amongst my other files. It went bankrupt not long after I left.Īt my next place of employment operated a milling machine and was dispatched on day release to do a Tech III course on 'Mechanical & Production Engineering'. During this time I worked with one of my three brothers for a firm which made steel furniture, ran a card school, and for which it seemed the prerequisites of employment were an ability to drink huge quantities, accept minimum wages, and make tea. On leaving school there was a hiatus of a few years while a grappled with the adult world. I started writing SF and fantasy at the age of sixteen, perhaps motivated by a compliment from my English teacher for a story I had written in class after an overdose of E.C.
It also helped that my parents (a school teacher and a lecturer in applied mathematics) were also SF aficionados. My love of the strange began, as it does with so many children, with my hearing The Hobbit, and a later reading Lord of the Rings. I was born in 1961 in Billericay in Essex, had an uneventful childhood and an inadequate and detestable schooling courtesy of the comprehensive reform that would have us all equally uneducated. The autobiography below was provided courtesy of the author. Having over eighteen books published he has been accused of overproduction (despite spending far too much time ranting on his blog, cycling off fat, and drinking too much wine) but doesn't intend to slow down just yet.
Neal Asher lives sometimes in England, sometimes in Crete and mostly at a keyboard. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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