Stephen Anastasi the writer arrived suddenly and fully formed in 1992 in Charleville Queensland, in front of a computer screen. He is not able to say with certainty whether it was ...view moreStephen Anastasi the writer arrived suddenly and fully formed in 1992 in Charleville Queensland, in front of a computer screen. He is not able to say with certainty whether it was his stories that brought him into existence, or he that brought them into existence. Like Roald Dahl, one day he had an idea for a story, he sat down and began to write. Time passed without measure and mysteriously an adventure came to exist, in his case between the zeroes and ones that colour his hard disk—in Dahl’s case, in the soft blackness of a hotel pencil.
Stephen regularly slips out of his writing space and falls into a world where there are teachers and students of science and mathematics. There, he does his best to make students believe that to a sufficiently advanced mind, physics, mathematics and magic are nearly indistinguishable. Occasionally a student gets it—sees the greater reality—and goes electric with understanding. Stephen likes to think that these students will carry a torch to others.view less