The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats (57 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Hodder was born in Southampton, England, at the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis and a year before the debut of
Doctor Who
. As a toddler, he played in the next-d
oor neighbour's WWII Anderson shelter, fell on his head at least three times, and won a Tarzan–yelling competition at a Butlins holiday camp by virtue of being the only entrant. He recollects dreams from his early childhood that involve things he couldn't possibly have known about at the time. He has been haunted twice and possesses a fragmentary memory of what might have been a UFO encounter.

He now lives in Valencia, Spain, and is the father of twins.

Aside from reading and writing, his interests include Jungian psychology, symbolism, history, expensive gadgets, scientific philosophy, and the exposure of governmental and cultural propaganda and deception.

Photo by Yolanda Lerma Palomares