Growing up in Australia in the 1950's he spent his boyhood and teenage years reading Marvel and DC comics and following all the sci-fi TV series of Star Trek, Lost in Space, Dr Who and Time Tunnel. Then, in his adulthood, he watched sci-fi movies including Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Gate, and continues to watch new release sci-fi movies. He has always loved English literature and started writing romantic poetry, graduating to his first non-fiction book in 2003. Retiring from a career of forty years in the public service, he is now writing full time applying his past martial arts training and his interest in science as well as science fiction, to write believable and exciting sci-fi stories. Readers from Amazon Books who read his first sci-fi novel published in 2012 Sentinels of Tzurac -Terra Major Under Threat have asked for more in the space opera adventure and he has now made the series into a trilogy.