Ray Crowther was born in London and now lives in Tiptree, Essex.
He read Cybernetics and Mathematics at Reading University and then developed computer systems in England and Germany before starting his own company specializing in human resources software.
During his systems career he had technical papers published and wrote more reference manuals than he can remember. He maintains that the exacting discipline of technical authoring prepared him well for a creative change into fiction writing. He cites Robert Goddard as his favourite author and biggest influence on his own writing more...