Alex Temple

I grew up as part of a military family and spent the first eleven years of my life wandering the world, rarely staying in one place for more than six months to a year. This gave me a much wider and far more open perspective on life, along with a wealth of diverse experiences beyond that of the majority of children of my age, all of which rewarded my fertile and vivid imagination with a rich store of material to draw upon.

My first recollection of writing, beyond scribbled repetitions of my own name, was around the age of six when I began making up my own little fantasy worlds, usually alien societies filled with weird animals. As I grew older I became more interested in detective and cowboy stories and wrote a series of western tales that I used to take into school and read to others in my class during the breaks.