My full name is Andrew Neil Milne. I was born in Arbroath, Scotland, on December 3rd, 1990, where I was raised by my parents together with my younger sister. I was, and am, bookish. Growing up, I was obsessed with the bleak intensity, the thorny moral dilemmas, and the interstellar scope of K.A. Applegate's 'Animorphs' books. From those, I graduated to authors like Frank Herbert; Dan Simmons; Ursula K. Le Guin; Alfred Bester; Samuel R. Delaney; Peter F. Hamilton; James S.A. Corey. I graduated from the University of Dundee in 2012 with a first-class M.A. in English and Politics.
I found it easy and natural to string sentences together while writing essays, and I always had it in my head that I would write a novel one day (I made my first, un
