by Ben Jeapes
Pub. David Fickling Books, November 2004
ISBN 0-385-60686-9
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NEW WORLD ORDER by Ben Jeapes Pub. David Fickling Books, November 2004 ISBN 0-385-60686-9 |
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MEET THE AUTHOR
en Jeapes was overexposed in early childhood to Dr Who, Thunderbirds and Star Trek, which set him on the science fiction trail. What really engrained the stuff in him was the discovery that it comes in the written form. He started writing science fiction himself at the age of 18 in the mistaken belief that it would be quite easy (it isn't) and save him from having to get a real job (it didn't). He sold his first story in 1989 and has now had 18 of them published, mostly in the magazine Interzone, as well as three novels: His Majesty's Starship (December 1998, published in the US by Scholastic Inc. under the bafflingly inappropriate title The Ark); Wingèd Chariot (February 2000), and The Xenocide Mission (May 2002). Sadly the first two are out of print.
You can find the full text of most of his published stories, his e-mail address for fan letters, and much more personal information (some of which ventures towards daring to be interesting) at www.sff.net/people/ben-jeapes. But if you've got this far, you probably already know that.
Ben's ambition is to live to be 101 and 7 months, so as to reach the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings and the arrival of the man responsible for Ben's unusual surname — a Danish mercenary called Jep, whose name features in the Domesday Book and who fought for William the Conqueror — in the British Isles. It's not everyone who gets to celebrate a thousandth family anniversary. Ben's other ambition is to have descendants of his own by the time he's 101, so they can remind him what he's staying alive for.
He likes cats, good food, an occasional trip to the cinema and not being broke. He loathes stereotypes, junk e-mail, boy and girl bands, and TV sport — most especially TV sport that interrupts usual programming. He is English, and as quietly proud of the fact as you would expect of the descendant of a Danish mercenary who fought for a bunch of Norsemen living in northern France.
He has no immediate plans for a sequel to The New World Order — except to say that if one is written, it will probably involve Daniel visiting North America. A couple of years ago, Ben had the pleasure of visiting the Cahokia Mounds of Illinois, just across the Mississippi from St Louis. They are the oldest artificial structures in North America and as obvious a place of landpower intersection as he has ever seen.
