Paul M. Cray
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | Product Management |
| Location | Brentford, Middlesex, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | 40 year old London-based aspiring novelist currently working in product management for a water resource management software company |
| Interests | Artificial (General) Intelligence, books, conversation, drinking, dating, eating, futurology, hysterical realism, ideas, maximalism, molecular nanotechnology, recherche postmodernism, science fiction, the technological singularity, transrealism, transhumanism, writing |
| Favorite movies | "Annie Hall", "Kind Hearts and Coronets", "Midnight Express", "2001: a Space Odyssey" |
| Favorite music | Bach - Goldberg Variations, Beethoven - Ninth Symphony, Elgar - Cello Concerto, Gilbert and Sullivan - "HMS Pinafore", The Proclaimers - "Sunshine on Leith", Paul Simon - "Hearts and Bones" |
| Favorite books | Kingsley Amis - "Lucky Jim", Margaret Attwood - "The Handmaid's Tale", Julian Barnes - "The History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters", Arthur C. Clarke - "Profiles of the Future", Jonathan Coe - "What a Carve Up!", William Cooper - "Scenes from Provinicial Life", Jared Diamond - "The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee", Philip K. Dick - "The Man in the High Castle", John Fowles - "The Magus", Michael Frayn - "Sweet Dreams", Douglas R. Hofstadter - "Goedel, Escher, Bach: a Eternal Golden Braid", B.S. Johnson - "Travelling People", David Lodge - "How Far Can You Go?", Christopher Priest - "The Affirmation", W. Olaf Stapledon - "Star Maker", Neal Stephenson - "Cryptonomicon", Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - "Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: a Duty-Dance with Death", Evelyn Waugh - "A Handful of Dust" |
You can whistle and steam can whistle, so why do you sing in the shower?
Who said I can whistle?