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Are you the author of the story 'The Violence of the Gardener' which appeared in the anthology 'A Casualty of War' edited by Peter Burton?

Cliff James Hello Liam. Yes, The Violence of the Gardener was my first published short story. I'll always be grateful to Peter Burton for inviting me to contributeit to A Casualty of War. Have you read it?
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Cliff

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Cliff James Maybe the mystery in all our lives at this particular epoch in human history: how did we come to believe that money was anything more than a fragile social construct. Or else the mystery of why so often humans desire those who desire others...

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Cliff James Atlantis, definitely. I'd want to find out why the imagined continent sank beneath the waves. I'd expect it wasn't a natural cataclysm at all, but rather - as with the UK and the USA today - more prosaic, political reasons: the rise of hate, of dictatorial clowns, nascent fascism: good people doing nothing.

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