Interview with Author Matthew Farrer I've recently had the distinct pleasure of being able to interview the fantastic science fiction author Matthew Farrer. Matt is reknowned author who is noted for his works within the Warhammer 40,000 universe, published by Black Library. Be sure to check out his works at www.blacklibrary.com and his latest work Strange Flesh set in the Android universe. 1. can you please tell us a bit about yourself in your own words, who are you? Canberra-born, Canberra-raised, middle-class public service drone who stays up too late and procrastinates too much. I think that gets the basics out of the way. 2. When did you first start writing and what attracted you to it? I've been storytelling for as long as I can remember. I used to act out all manner of multi-part, cast-of-thousands epics in my back yard with an armoury of garden stakes and sticks, and then when I got enough schooling to be put to writing stories I started writing them down as well. I got introduced to Dungeons and Dragons when I was about nine or ten and jumped into that with both feet -- stories I could tell that I could get other people in on! How cool was this?! By the time I was in fifth grade I was getting special assignments from the teachers in Creative Writing and by the time I started secondary school I had already come to think of writing stories as my particular Thing, the way