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with a doctoral thesis on The Sociology of Science Fiction.

Until 1988 he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. He was later a full-time writer and a part-time lecturer at several universities for classes concerning subjects such as creative writing. He was married twice, and had a son and a daughter by his first wife.

He wrote and contributed to numerous reference works, including the last print edition of the

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