Pearce, Margaret

Margaret Pearce was born when the population of Australia was seven million, now it is some twenty-two. Like many Australians, her forebears immigrated in the 1850's to find a better life, part of the largest diaspora of the times. At seven she found a lurid science fiction magazine, and her unsupervised reading started. The cover had an almost naked female in a wine glass and an alien drinking her blood from a tap. She has since been hooked on science fiction and fantasy. She completed a commercial course before being launched on an unsuspecting business world as a typist, stenographer and se...