Ed
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"Give Cthulhu a chance."
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26 years old
Cardiff,
United Kingdom
Last Login:7/21/2008
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Ed's Interests
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Writing (various forms and genres; black comedy, fantasy and horror, mostly; short stories, full length novel, poetry), music, computer games, smoking, drinking, Cthulhu, zombie horror, | | Music |
Black Sabbath, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Chemical Brothers, Eels, Hawkwind, Miles Davis, The Deviants, British Sea Power, Rob Zombie, Apollo 440, Disturbed, Fish, Blind Guardian, Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus, Aphex Twin, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Anti-Nowhere League, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Marilyn Manson, The Doors, Motorhead, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Gorillaz, Hayseed Dixie, Inner City Unit, Iced Earth, Massive Attack, Lemon Jelly, Green Day, Pantera, The Beatles, The Buggles, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Franz Ferdinand, Razorlight, Prodigy, Judas Priest, J.S.Bach, Led Zeppelin, Primal Scream, The Killers, The The, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Strangles, Foo Fighters, Kyuss, Oasis, Bauhaus, Dresden Dolls, Apocalyptica, Slayer, Less Than Jake, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Damned, Modern Jazz Quartet, Therapy?, Deep Purple, Throbbing Gristle, Pendulum Bands I've seen recently:
Bard
Hell Is For Heroes
Reuben
My Vitriol
The Saw Doctors
Zico Chain
Draw Me Pretty
Madness
Blackmores Night
Gothien
Velvet Revolver
Satellite Party
Zico Chain
Deep Purple
Styx
Thin Lizzy
Hayseed Dixie
DarkWater
Echo Lounge
The New Fast Black
DragonForce
Motorhead
Clutch
Crucified Barbara
Slayer
In Flames
Lamb Of God
Children Of Bodom
Thine Eyes Bleed
Anti-Nowhere League
Demob
Less Than Jake
Jesse James
Fandangle
Therapy?
Billy Idol
The Stranglers
Blue Oyster Cult
Gary Numan
Sandi Thom
Hayseed Dixie
The Wonder Stuff
Galaktikos | | Movies |
Withnail & I, The Hole, Hellraiser (the first one is great but the series gets worse rapidly), Highlander (same again), Lolita (Kubrick's), Pulp Fiction, The Fly, Quills, Pi, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead (both versions), Land Of The Dead, Nightbreed, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Harvey, Dusk 'Til Dawn, Sin City, Call Of Cthulhu, Fight Club, American Beauty, Donnie Darko | | Television |
Spaced, Green Wing, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, 6 Feet Under, Scrubs, The Simpsons | | Books | Micheal Moorcock, Mick Farren, Clive Barker, Oscar Wilde, the Marquis de Sade, Voltaire, Kim Newman, Douglas Adams, William Blake, P.G. Wodehouse, J.G. Ballard, Tom Holt, W.B. Yeats, Edgar Allen Poe, George Orwell, Larry Niven, Stephen Fry, Lord Dunsany. Robert E. Howard, T.S. Eliot, Isaac Asimov, Simon Raven Books I've read recently: Majipoor Chronicles, Robert Silverberg
Who's Who In Hell, Robert Chalmers
Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Kim Newman
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson
Lake Woebegon Days, Garrison Keillor
Valentine Pontifex, Robert Silverberg
Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Foundation And Empire, Isaac Asimov
Foundation, Isaac Asimov
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
Book Of Dope Stories, Howard Marks
Morning Star, Simon Raven
Dead Air, Iain Banks
The Last Of The Savages, Jay McInerney
Habitus, James Flint
Who On Earth Is Tom Baker?, Tom Baker
The Brothel In Rosenstrasse, Michael Moorcock
By Design, Richard E. Grant
With Nails, Richard E. Grant
The Clock of Dreams, Brian Lumley
The Pedant In The Kitchen, Julian Barnes
The Transition of Titus Crow, Brian Lumley
The Burrowers Beneath, Brian Lumley
Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
The Case Of Thomas N, John David Morley
Iron Council, China Mieville
Gridlock, Ben Elton
The Roaches Have No King, Daniel Evan Weiss
Fierce People, Dirk Wittenborn
Dream Story, Arthur Schnitzler
69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess, Stewart Home
Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
Legends From The End Of Time, Michael Moorcock
Life, The Universe & Everything, Douglas Adams
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Legend Of Spud Murphy, Eoin Colfer (came free with cereal)
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, Douglas Adams
The Kindness Of Women, J.G. Ballard
The Misanthrope, Moliere
Empire Of The Sun, J.G. Ballard
Layer Cake, J.J. Connolly
The Disaster Area, J.G. Ballard
Making History, Stephen Fry
Sharpes Siege, Bernard Cornwall
Radio Romance, Garrison Keillor
Beheld, Ed Bemand (I had to read it for myself when it came out)
Coldheart Canyon, Clive Barker
The Gravediggers, J.H. Brennan
King Rat, James Clavell
Serpico, Peter Maas
Rotten In Denmark, Jim Pollard
Underland, Mick Farren
Tales Of Known Space, Larry Niven
The Adventures Of Una Persson And Catherine Cornelius In The Twentieth Century, Michael Moorcock
Books Of Blood 1, Clive Barker | | Heroes |
Jerry Cornelius, Doc Holliday, Marquis de Sade, Lemmy, Hunter S. Thompson, Ford Prefect, Mick Farren |
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Ed's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Guildford | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Occupation: | Creative/Entropic Consultant & Zombie Hunter |
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Ed's Networking
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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My first novel was recently published by Kennedy & Boyd. I'm currently working on my second. I have also written short stories and poetry and am working on a radio script.
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About me:
I grew up in Guildford, and currently live in Cardiff. My first novel Beheld was recently published by Kennedy & Boyd and is available in lots of places ... I started writing it a few years ago and it's loosely inspired by some of the people I met and things that happened while I was at university.
I'm about two thirds of the way through writing my next novel, so give it another year or so... I still have to have a dayjob as well to pay the bills so I can't put as much time into my writing as I would like.
Michael is young, too well off to have to bother to work, and bored. He divides his time between hanging around in the local pub, drinking too much and talking high-minded nonsense with his devious friend Julian, and having arguments with his girlfriend Sophie, frequently in the same evening.
One night Julian gives him a capsule marked "TAP 100": Total Accuracy of Perception, he claims. Unable to resist, Michael takes it the folllowing day and experiences a moment of true perspective on the Universe: it is all just countless spinning shapes, with their own interplay in which he is barely involved. Interesting but hardly life-changing, he decides, when it is over.
Rapidly Michael realises that there is more to TAP 100 than he first thought; his TV starts talking to him and seems to know more than him about what's going on. People are coming after him, serious people - with guns - who can come back from the dead. Michael, caught between the world outside and the world he's creating in his mind, is forced to take a stand against them. After all... it can't all be real, can it?. Some comments on Beheld:
"A black comedy piece involving drug malediction and dis/integration of perception- fun for all the family and a bloody good read! Highly recommended!" Sean Sansom
"A wickedly funny, contemporary tale that has you gripped from the outset." Lucy O'Brien
"The best read I've had in ages." Steph Austin
| You Are 55% Normal | 
While some of your behavior is quite normal...
Other things you do are downright strange
You've got a little of your freak going on
But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself
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How Normal Are You?| You Are 68% Sociopath | 
The good news is that you're devastatingly charming.
The bad news? You mostly use those charms for evil!
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| You Are An INTP |
The Thinker
You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can.
Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge.
Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat.
A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it.
You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor.
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| You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer | 
Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from.
And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi.
Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics...
Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world!
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Your Personality Is Like Acid
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A bit wacky, you're very difficult to predict.
One moment you're in your own little happy universe...
And the next, you're on a bad trip to your own personal hell!
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You Are 70% Misanthropic
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Here's the truth: Most people suck. You are just lucky enough to know it.
You're not ready to go live alone in a cave - but you're getting there.
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Create your own visitor map!
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
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Who I'd like to meet:
New readers, if you're looking at this you'd probably enjoy Beheld. Try it... ; other writers of all kinds of generes; Interesting people.
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