L. J. Kendall

L. J. Kendall is an Australian author who failed to drown on five separate occasions on Sydney's northern beaches. He worked in software R&D and communication, and had a long happy marriage to an adventurous mediaeval scholar 22 years his senior.

He believes honesty is the best policy, most people are good and kind, and, with luck, you get out of life what you put in. He writes and enjoys believable sci fi and fantasy where the characters drive the plot. He loves quirky outsiders, and after over 10,000 hours of roleplaying – opposing everything from cosmic horrors, to time-looped cannibal space-Nazis, to evil megacorporations – he reckons he’d be helpful in a zombie apocalypse.

Inspecting his double-stacked collection of 2,000 paperbacks and his teetering piles of 300 or so books-to-be-read, you’ll find his favourite authors, including Roger Zelazny, Wen Spencer, and Marjorie M Liu.

His favourite movie is probably The Fifth Element, or maybe Ponyo. Or Mr Right. Or Alita: Battle Angel.