about me

I'm a literate, articulate, eclectic, computer programmer at the bleeding edge of technology with a deep passion for language and languages of all flavours.

I will most likely wait for the dust to settle on the changes which are about to occur in the way that rankings are established before deciding whether my current work in progress gets an airing on here. I am just somewhat surprised that it took HC so long to get round to trying to fix something which was so obviously broken and open to abuse.

favourite books

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
anything by Jorge Luis Borges :)
Ways of Seeing - John Berger
The Aubrey/Maturin cycle - Patrick O'Brian
The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
Crowds & Power - Elias Cannetti
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakhov
If On a Winter's Night a Traveller - Italo Calvino
Enemies of Promise - Cyril Connolly
The Outsider - Colin Wilson

Sci-Fi

Anything by Philip K.Dick, A.E.Van Vogt, Alfred Bester, Vernor Vinge, Michael Moorcock
Snowcrash - Neal Stephenson
The Dorsai sequence - Gordon R. Dickson

Fantasy
Anything by Lord Dunsany, H.P.Lovecraft
The Worm Ouroboros - E R Eddison
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(colour) Fairy Books - collected by Andrew Lang

Crime/Thriller/espionage
Anything by Patricia Highsmith
John le Carre's George Smiley novels
Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories

my websites

http://szyzygy.wordpress.com/     http://szyzygycode.wordpress.com/