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Sample of authors
MacBride, Stuart
Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where he attended Middlefield Academy and Westhill Academy. He went on to study architecture at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh without graduating. He has worked with scrubbing toilets on an oil rig and he was a graphic designer, actor, undertaker and computer programmer before...
Literary figures
Henry (Jackson)
Gender: Male
He is a police officer in New York – in about 3,000 years from now! He is also – as the main character in one of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi detective stories – something of a portal figure for that sub-genre. Elijah Bailey, who can panic because of agoraphobia, lost his mother at an early age, and as a consequence is very caring of his own family, his wife Jezebel, called Jessie, and his son Bentley. A...