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Neil M. Haggath

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Born

in Middlesbrough, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.spaceandsanity.com

Genre

Science Fiction

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The late, great Sir Arthur C. Clarke - the greatest science fiction wr ...more

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September 2017

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I'm not quite as old as the Space Age, but I grew up with it! I was born a few months after Yuri Gagarin's flight, and was seven years old when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon. I followed the Apollo programme avidly as a kid, and the resultant fascination with spaceflight has never left me. In recent years, I've had the immense honour and privilege of meeting seven of the Apollo astronauts, including two of those who landed on the Moon and two of the heroes of Apollo 13.
I have a degree in astrophysics ( Leeds University, 1983 ), but my profession is far more mundane - I'm a freelance software engineer.
I'm an amateur astronomer, and an avid eclipse chaser. I've travelled to six total solar eclipses, four of them successfull ...more

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Neil M. Haggath My inspiration was the late, great Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest writer of science fiction who has ever lived. I read every one of his novels whe…moreMy inspiration was the late, great Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest writer of science fiction who has ever lived. I read every one of his novels when I was young, and still own them all. I included a tribute to him in my own novel.
One friend who has read my book said my writing reminded him of Sir Arthur; I regard that as the ultimate accolade!
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