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Simon Bisson

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Born on the Channel Island of Jersey, Simon moved to the UK to attend the University of Bath where he studied electrical and electronic engineering.

Since then, a varied career has included being part of the team building the world's first solid state 30KW HF radio transmitter, writing electromagnetic modelling software for railguns, and testing the first ADSL equipment in the UK.

He also built one the UK's first national ISPs, which is still running, before spending several years developing architectures for large online services for many major brands.

For the last two decades he's been a freelance writer, specialising in enterprise technologies and development. He works with his wife and writing partner Mary Branscombe from a small house in
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Recent Reads: Planetary Compendium. All 900+ pages of Warren Ellis' exploration of the strange, a homage to Philip Jose Farmer's homage to pulp adventures. A version of the Wold Newton family peppers the Wildstorm universe along with a fascination wi ...more
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