Christopher Scott Owens
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Mainframe Programmer--that's right, I'm a dinosaur! |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | I'm in my mid-thirties, and grew up in the far West End of Richmond on 8 acres of semi-ruraldom. Without siblings or neighborhood kids to get me in trouble, I became very introverted, but developed my own interests, instead of letting a groupthink of peers develop them for me. In my teens, it was me and my 8-bit C64. Ah, the good old days of Basic 2.0 and 6510 Assembler. Needless to say, being sent to my tiny room wasn't punishment. I scoured books on QM and relativity, though my math wasn't up to par in pursuing physics as a living. After high school, I got into prog: Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, ELP, ect. I love any music that is colorful, complex and adventurous. I've always loved SF&F. I spent one summer with Corwin as he rode through shadow, fleeing the storm as Oberon redrew the Pattern. In 2003, I began to try my hand at writing, and found it's harder than it seems. So far, that hasn't deterred me. But maybe it should? |
| Interests | Speculative fiction, good food(especially Italian!), complex feats of music, layman physics, a waning love of structural programming |
| Favorite movies | Spider-man, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Sphere, Back To The Future |
| Favorite music | Progressive rock(not to be confused with alternative), be-bop/hard bop, cool jazz, fusion, electronic prog(aka 'new age'), Classical (that is to say, symphonic and chamber works of the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern ages, as well as non-Western instrumental traditions), ambient |
| Favorite books | The Chronicles Of Amber, Ender's Game, The Wheel Of Time |