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One year when I must have been about nine or ten we went on holiday to the sea side. I remember watching a whole series of Sci Fi classics on television each evening whilst my parents visited the hotel restaurant, I saw films like 'The day the Earth stood still' and 'Conquest of Space' and that excitment has never really left me.

I've grown up, I've read Joyce and Dickens, I love Catch 22 and Umberto Eco and Thomas Pynchon, but my heart and the core of my love of literature lie with Science Fiction. Nothing else really compares does it? The freedom to speculate, the freedom to investigate and hold a mirror up to our own lives and societies and most of all the freedom to write amazing stories.

If I had to choose though my Science Fiction books for a desert island would be the Dune sequence by Frank Herbert, I don't think anything has been written that comes close to the epic scope of these books.