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Robert Hodgson

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Sheffield, The United Kingdom

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http://www.inspireco.co.uk/

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Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Douglas Adams, Tom Wolfe, Nick Hornby, John Fowles, Stephen King|3389] ...more

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I narrowly missed international fame as a rock god when my mum told me the singer in my group was rubbish and I should ditch him. (Bruce Dickenson went on to achieve a modicum success as the singer in Iron Maiden.)
A little later, as rock music was being overtaken by punk, I worked in a number of recording studios then bizarrely decided to undertake a degree in applied physics (which proved to be just slightly less than impossible.) On graduating I cheated/fluked my way into the BBC as a Studio Manager in London - one of the best jobs in the world in 1979. There I was immersed in a truly amazing culture and worked on some ground breaking programmes such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Then followed twenty years running my own marketi ...more

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Chemistry

3.68 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions

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Trans Genre or Same Genre?

So I have two ideas kicking around in my head.
The first is another tragi-comedy in the style of Chemistry.
It relates to the obsession people have with building the dream homes. I'm currently involved with a TV programme called Grand Designs which (for you non-UK people) features the ridiculous exploits of obsessed dream-home builders. I could therefore draw on quite a bit of personal experience.
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“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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