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Steve Catto

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The United Kingdom

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Science Fiction, Fantasy

Influences

RL Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

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May 2017

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Steve Catto is an old man, or at least that’s what it says on his birth certificate. He was born in Yorkshire, but his parents took him to Australia when he was six years old and he grew up there, sometimes racing cars across the desert.

He was never very good at school, but the one thing he did learn was how to learn, and he started writing programs for the computer at the local university, much to the disdain of his teachers who told him that he would ‘never make a living out of that rubbish’. In his late teens he returned to the UK, and his parents followed him – which wasn’t what he wanted because he was hoping to get away from them.

His first proper job was in the computer department of an infamous Oxford publishing company, and he subs ...more

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Average rating: 3.53 · 30 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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Crystal Gazing

Here’s a little comedy sketch I wrote in Monty Python style. I’ve started writing a few short stories in between work on the audiobook and sequel to Snowflakes, but I do get the odd strange idea that’s just a bit of fun...

https://medium.com/@stevecatto113/cry...

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Published on December 24, 2018 01:28 • Tags: humour

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Dear Mr Pop Star

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Despite my autocorrect insisting on calling you a very rude name I have persevered with my task and finally managed to persuade it to leave my writing intact for long enough to put my thoughts into words.

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Steve Catto liked David Craig's blog post: Writing social values in historical fiction "One of the potential pitfalls of writing fiction in certain periods is how to acknowledge social values no longer compatible with contemporary values. With fiction set in the 19th century, there runs the risk of glorifying imperialism/colonialism...." Read more of this blog post »
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Dear Mr Philpott, Despite my autocorrect insisting on calling you a very rude name I have persevered with my task and finally managed to persuade it to leave my writing intact for long enough to put my thoughts into words. I had been looking forward to ...more
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Steve Catto is now following Alice McVeigh Author of While The Music Lasts
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Steve Catto made a comment on Confused About Curvy " I've got a bit fatter as I've got older. There's no equivalent of 'curvy' to describe men. I look at myself in photographs and sometimes think it woul ...more "
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Steve Catto and 8 other people liked Rebecca Gransden's review of The Carrot Man: "A carrot man in a deadpan. A man fine-tunes neurosis behind a veneer of time warp intolerances hatched to further his general aggravation at his living situation and all those who enter his vision. He is surrounded by the feckless, and hypersensitive" Read more of this review »
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Well, I didn't know what to think about this book when I first heard about it. It's not the sort of book that I would have expected to like. The narration is gritty. Simple. To the point. Not for the easily offended because it tackles real situations ...more
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