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David Wingrove

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David Wingrove


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
September 01, 1954

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David Wingrove (born September 1954 in North Battersea, London) is a British science fiction writer. He is well-known as the author of the "Chung Kuo" novels (eight in total). He is also the co-author (with Rand and Robyn Miller) of the three "Myst" novels.

Wingrove worked in the banking industry for 7 years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature.

He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca.

Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels.

He started work on a new fictional project called A Perfect Art. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was cha
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“now. She reaches out and touches the scar at my neck. It’s almost healed, but it’s still tender. ‘It’s the only one that shows.’ ‘What?’ She smiles sadly. ‘Look at you, Otto. You’re a classic, you know that? Walking wounded. A bullet to the heart, endlessly repeated.’ My mouth is suddenly dry. I go to speak, but she shakes her head, then turns and orders two more whiskies. Doubles.”
David Wingrove, The Empire of Time: Roads to Moscow: Book One

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