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Chris Beckett


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Chris Beckett is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author.

Beckett was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and Bryanston School in Dorset, England. He holds a BSc (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Bristol (1977), a CQSW from the University of Wales (1981), a Diploma in Advanced Social Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1977), and an MA in English Studies from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (2005).

He has been a senior lecturer in social work at APU since 2000. He was a social worker for eight years and the manager of a children and families social work team for ten years. Beckett has authored or co-authored several textbooks and scholarly articles on social work.

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The Three Classes

In a certain country the people are divided by law into just three classes: the Owners, the Experts and the Workers, the precise boundaries between them being set down in the relevant statutes. At one point the Owners, who were at that time basically warlords and protection racketeers, were in charge of everything. However, as time went on, the Experts – merchants and what we might now call profes

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Published on September 11, 2024 07:53
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“Nothing looks more lovely than something that’s about to end, and that’s true even if you yourself are going to be the cause of its ending.”
Chris Beckett, Dark Eden

“Watch out for men who want to turn everything into a story that’s all about them. There will always be a few of them, and once one of them starts, another one of them will want to fight with him.”
Chris Beckett, Dark Eden

“Why do we struggle so much? Why do we demand so much of life, when the happiest moments are when nothing is happening at all?”
Chris Beckett, The Holy Machine

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MARCH SCIENCE FICTION -- this poll decides which two books will go into the run off poll of the Science Fiction Book of the Month for March.

 
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