Pez is a native of Sheffield in the UK. His native environment is the Peak District National Park, where he can often be found walking or cycling, although he can usually be lured indoors with books, coffee or a wide variety of savory foods, Pretty much any food, actually.
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I've lived my whole life to date in Sheffield, with occasional excursions into the wider world. I like to pretend I'm a well-rounded human being with many interests, the two most long-term of which are food and books. Although oddly enough i've never been that interested in reading about food, preferring the cooking and eating of it. I used to be fond of saying that i'd read anything with print on it, and i'm sure i would if i were desperate, but have found some genres and writers i prefer to steer clear of. I usually have several books on the go at a time - often a non fiction (science, history, philosophy, society), a heavyweight fiction, a more lightweight fiction and an audiobook which could be any of the above. Fortunately in the UK it is legal to cycle while wearing earphones.While i dislike genre definitions, i do read a lot of science fiction, as well as a fair bit of crime and contemporary fiction.
My favourite authors are: Gene Wolfe, Iain Banks, Christopher Brookmyre, Ursula le Guin, Sheri Tepper, Angela Carter, Saul Bellow, John Irving, Umberto Eco, Dashiell Hammett, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Joseph Conrad, Louis de Berniere, Neal Stephenson, David Mitchell, Geoff Ryman, Rupert Thomson, Paul McAuley and many others.
Favourite movies: African Queen, The Princess Bride, Frank Capra/James Stewart, Amelie, Jackie Brown, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Clerks, Coen Brothers, Ealing comedies, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hot Fuzz, Blazing Saddles, Solaris (both versions), Kurosawa, Studio Ghibli, Pan's Labyrinth
Music: Tanya Donelly, Belly, Aimee Mann, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Annie Lennox, Kate Rusby, Foo Fighters, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Eddi Reader, Dusty Springfield, Faith No More, David Bowie, the Levellers, the Jam, Paul Weller, PJ Harvery, RATM, Portishead, Rasputina, Monkey Swallows the Universe, Philip Glass, Jimi Hendrix
TV Shows: The Wire, The Dead Zone, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Waking the Dead, Law and Order, Blake's 7, Firefly, any BBC natural history, The Mighty Boosh, Black Books, Spaced, Farscape
oh, and BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7
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