About me
Jeremy Alam is a science fiction writer living in Adelaide, South Australia. Growing up in Sydney, he studied architecture at Sydney University, graduating in 1987. After several years working in architectural practice, including stints as a guest lecturer at a Sydney art college, he switched to government, where he worked in a variety of roles before ending up in education and training and gaining further qualifications in these fields. He left government at the end of 2016, moving from Sydney to Adelaide, to become a full time writer. He is a current member of Writers SA. Jeremy has written several short stories, two fantasy chronicles based on his experience as a Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder player, and has recently completed his first novel, Dreamspace.
Jeremy has been a keen science fiction fan from his teenage years, and counts as his major influences the novels and stories of Philip K Dick, Olaf Stapledon, Ursula Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Greg Benford and Ian Watson. He is interested in exploring the philosophical, sociological, moral and ethical issues implicated by future science and technology, sprinkled with the fun and WTF moments of human irrationality. He has a special focus on the psychology of architectural space and form and their relationships with paths, movement and direction. In his spare time, Jeremy is a keen plastic modeler who sometimes likes to dabble in model railways. He served hard time as treasurer of St Vincent's Private Hospital Toastmasters for quite a few years, escaping with his sanity mostly intact and the knowledge that appearance and chutzpah always takes front seat over content in people's minds. Apart from reading and wine tasting at his local cellar doors, he is also an amateur astronomer and has a passion for classical and jazz music, interleaved with generous helpings of the Beatles, The Pretenders, Mutton Birds, REM, Cedar Walton, Jorge Boavista and others he has trouble remembering the names of. By the way, do you like the illustration on my homepage? It was created for me by the fantastically talented Victorian digital artist, Liz Botté. It depicts a scene on the planet of Brokkr from my novel Dreamspace. |