Wayne Edward Clarke Profile

Wayne Edward Clarke is an author sociologist musician and inventor Over the last few years I've spent most of my intellectual and creative energies in writing science fiction and fantasy novels I ve been a hard sci-fi fan my whole life but everyone else I know who s an avid reader are all fantasy fans Over the years I ve borrowed all their books and learned to love that genre as well My science fiction influences include the old masters Heinlein Asimov Niven Bradbury Clarke etc Also William Gibson Iain M Banks and Ender s Game by Orson Scott Card My favorite relatively unknown author is Daniel Keyes Moran and if you like sci-fi you should read his Continuing Time trilogy Emerald Eyes The Long Run and The Last Dancer They might be out of print but I think you can still get them as ebooks online My fantasy influences include Raymond E Feist David Eddings and Jaqueline Carey I ve also been influenced as a fiction writer by my sociological work and my science fiction novel People Of The Tiger and the rest of The Rational Future Series is set in a utopian future where my social policies have been implemented which is a good way to get those ideas out into the public consciousness Much of my social thinking permeates my fantasy novel Blessings Of A Curse as well though it s a lot harder to notice there I ve also incorporated my ideas on the law and legal reform in that book I was born in Vancouver British Columbia Canada on Sept I'm estranged from my father having met him twice since I was a toddler I lived in Calgary Alberta Canada from to since then I've lived in Cebu Philippines Now I can travel where I