Chris Dolley
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Chris Dolley was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1954 but now lives on a smallholding in Normandy, France with his wife, a dolmen and a frightening number of animals.
In 1974, while Plymouth Area Rag Chairman, he convinced the UK media that Cornwall had risen up and declared independence. Pictures of the Free Cornish Army training pushed the 1974 General Election result off the front pages of the South West's newspapers. The story was later written up in Punch
Also in 1974 - it was a dangerous year - he invented the world's most dangerous game. The Wrigley's Giant Spearmint Gum Blindfold Relay race (with spin start) a game so dangerous it was only played the once - on Plymouth Hoe - no one had told Chris about the cliff. Details can be read here
In 1978, he wrote the most aggressive chess program ever seen - in COBOL, on a teletype. The program was given special permission to enter the 1978 Home Office Chess tournament where it won its first match, drew its second and had to be dragged off its opponent in the third. Details, between the cracks of shaking fingers, can be glimpsed here
In 1981, he formed Randomberry Games, one of the first computer game companies in the UK, and designed Necromancer - one of the first 3D first person perspective dungeon games.
Now, when he's not being self-sufficient on his ten acres of fields and tors, he's an author of SF mystery novels. His novel, Resonance (Baen, 2005) was the first book to be plucked from Baen's electronic slush pile. His second, Shift, came out in July, 2007.
His personal website is here
Biography supplied by the author
Last updated August 7 2007
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