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Chris Mead

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Luton, The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction

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Chris was born in Luton, England, in 1948. Luton is a town with just one road sign: “Exit”. Nevertheless, he soldiered on for eighteen years, matriculating from Luton Grammar School with a solid, if unimaginative, education.

From there, he went to the University of Sussex outside of Brighton, the first of a series of new green-field universities built by the British government. It was 1966. The effect on Chris’ lower-middle-class persona was like throwing a burning flare into a barrel of fireworks. Three raucous years later, he somehow graduated with a degree in experimental psychology.

After a brief stay in the university’s PhD program, he joined what was then Brighton College of Art as a lecturer in visual perception. However, Chris quickly Chris was born in Luton, England, in 1948. Luton is a town with just one road sign: “Exit”. Nevertheless, he soldiered on for eighteen years, matriculating from Luton Grammar School with a solid, if unimaginative, education.

From there, he went to the University of Sussex outside of Brighton, the first of a series of new green-field universities built by the British government. It was 1966. The effect on Chris’ lower-middle-class persona was like throwing a burning flare into a barrel of fireworks. Three raucous years later, he somehow graduated with a degree in experimental psychology.

After a brief stay in the university’s PhD program, he joined what was then Brighton College of Art as a lecturer in visual perception. However, Chris quickly learned that radical ideas and educational institutions do not mix, and in 1970 he moved to Liverpool to join the Great George’s Community Arts Project. An organization somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao. It was there that he met his future wife, Susan. In 1972, their daughter, Johanna, was born.

Needing to support a family but still wanting to be involved in the radical future, Chris made the prescient decision to enter the field of information technology.

In 1984, Chris was headhunted by a California recruiter and he and the family moved to Los Angeles. After a year in LA, he moved to the east coast to work for the city of Hartford where, after five years, he managed to get his green card.

Still with a taste for the radical, Chris moved to the bay area to become the Director of Information Technology for the City of Berkeley. During his 17 years at Berkeley, Chris had a grandstand seat for the extraordinary technological and sociological revolutions in human history.

In 2002, Susan was diagnosed with cancer of the gall bladder, a disease she fought ferociously until she passed in August, 2005. Johanna - having graduated in film from San Francisco State University - met and married Alex Baker. Tragically, Alex succumbed to cancer of the colon and passed in 2009. This created a bond between Johanna and Chris that would last the rest of their lives.

Chris had always planned to return to Europe upon his retirement in 2007 but, he joked, that was far too long a time not to get involved with an American woman. Sure enough, he married Jennifer Pratt in the summer of 2006.

After a time, Chris divided his time between cooking, writing and other activities of a pleasurable nature. He always felt that he had led a life of extraordinary privilege and could not, in all heart, deny a day of it.

He is survived by his wife Jennifer, his daughter Johanna, and his brother Clive. ...more

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