John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist but makes his living writing science books for non-scientists. His best known is In Search of Schroedinger’s Cat, and his latest is Deep Simplicity. His science fiction books are less well known and mostly out of print, but older readers may have come across The Sixth Winter (co-written with Douglas Orgill). Gribbin lives in his county of East Sussex, in England, and has an honorary post at the University of Sussex, which provides him with agreeable company and involves no duties at all.