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K. A. Bedford

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K.A. Bedford

K. A. Bedford K. A. Bedford lives in Australia.

K. A. Bedford was born in the port town of Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1963. He grew up in the suburbs of Perth as an only child. He was writing all the time, even as a little kid, but it wasn't until he was 14 that he got serious about it, and decided that he wanted to be a writer and started writing with the aim of eventual publication.

He's gone to University twice. The first time in the 80s, he was doing an Arts degree, studying English, various types of literary and cultural theory, and theatre. Years later, married to the awesome Michelle, he signed up with a different University to try a Philosophy degree by correspondence. He took a break from school to work on becoming a full-time writer.

The only jobs of note he's held down were assignments with the Australian government's public service, working in various departments, including the Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Tax Office, from which he left in late 1989.

The Canadian publisher, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, which bought his first book Orbital Burn (a space opera mystery novel), has stuck with him on all his other books (military psychological thriller Eclipse, and space opera murder mystery Hydrogen Steel). All three of his previous books were shortlisted for Australia's prestigious Aurealis Awards in the Best Australian Novel category in the years of their publication; in 2005 his book Eclipse won in that category.

This year his new book, unrelated to these other three, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (time travel meets murder mystery), will be released. Unlike the distant-future, space opera backgrounds of the other books, this new one is, for the most part, set in the very near future, in the suburbs of Perth. The story involves a time machine repairman who used to be a policeman, who one day while poking about in a malfunctioning time machine, discovers a dead body; a murdered woman.

"I take my writing very seriously indeed, which is a relatively recent development. I see myself as a journeyman apprentice sort of writer, more craftsman than artist, and I expect to continue learning my craft for the rest of my life. Writing continues to be a struggle for me, in more ways than one, and I see that as a good thing. I have instructed my wife that if I ever pronounce that I have mastered writing, she is to hit me hard with a squid. I now live in fear of the squid." — K. A. Bedford

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Books by K.A. Bedford:

1. ORBITAL BURN / K. A. Bedford
       -Calgary : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2003.
2. ECLIPSE / K. A. Bedford
       -Calgary : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2005.
3. HYDROGEN STEEL / K. A. Bedford
       -Calgary : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2006.

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