Andy Ellis was born in Derby, spent twenty years growing up in Bristol, moved to Newcastle to study chemistry at the age of 24 and forgot to go home. Andy has worked in all sorts of places - in a bakery, a milk bottling plant, factories, warehouses, kitchens, on roofs and in garages. More recently, he did a long stint fighting the machine from the inside out with the Inland Revenue. Currently, Andy works in astronomy. Andy has loved sci-fi since he was old enough to read and looks forwards to writing many more books.