About me

Raised by a group of escaped circus bears, Stuart Richard Horatio Aloysius Bentley quickly became involved in the white slave trade, working his way up through the ranks until he became very jaded.  What had once seemed like jolly fun had become a vicious, tawdry life.  His affair with Inga, the Swedish belly dancer who was married to his business partner, ended in disaster when he took her for a ride on the Von Graf zeppelin.  The next years were a haze of absinthe and kerplunk.

He awoke to find that his past was a fabrication, a fabrication I tells ya!  Every word a lie!  Actually he was created by a carpenter and made into a real boy by a blue fairy.  He falls in love with the wrong person every time.

He looks like this:

Stuart Bentley, say the word and the goose drops down...

He loves science fiction too much for it to be healthy. His favourite writers include Philip K. Dick, Kate Orman, William Goldman, Neal Stephenson, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison…  But that’s a mere smattering, folks, a mere smattering.  For example, he’s forgotten Kage Baker, Mary Gentle, Kinky Friedman, Matt Fraction, C. S. Lewis, T. H. White and Michael Marshall Smith.  Kim Newman.  M. John Harrison.  Alistair Reynolds.  Graham Greene.  Others, too.

He currently works as an almost librarian in the York area, but really wants to be a Time Lord or an astronaut shot through a wormhole.