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What would you do with rational thought in a world ruled by instinct?
What do you do when you realise you are the first creature to become self-aware?
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Garry Grierson
Garry Grierson was the first of three children born to Jeanette and Tom. He came into this world on the ninth of October 1968, and is now quite old. After an unremarkable childhood growing up in a small mining village in Fife, Scotland, he mailed his first short-story entry to a competition aged twenty; receiving his very first form-rejection letter. From then on he has continued the dream of publishing that first Novel. Whenever real-life as a husband and applications developer doesn’t get in the way. Although he has had some success with short-stories the dream of publishing that elusive Novell still lingers on...
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