Matthew Hughes was born sixty years ago in Liverpool, England, but his family moved to Canada when he was five. He's made my living as a writer all of my adult life, first as a journalist, then as a staff speechwriter to the Canadian Ministers of Justice and Environment, and – from 1979 until a few years back – as a freelance corporate and political speechwriter in British Columbia.He's a a former director of the Federation of British Columbia Writers and used to belong to Mensa Canada, but these days he conserves his energies to write fiction. He's been married to a very patient woman since the late 1960s, and has three grown sons.
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Praise for Matthew Hughes
"If you're an admirer of the science fantasies of Jack Vance, it's
hard not to feel affection for the Archonate stories of Matthew
Hughes... Hughes has strengths of his own to draw upon: his own
considerable wit, and a flair for reified metaphysics surpassing
anything conceived by Vance."
- Nick Gevers, Locus
"A bit Arthur Conan Doyle, a bit Jack Vance.... Henghis's escapades
[have] the lasting appeal of one of PG Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster
books."
- Seattle Times
"Hughes's successful blend of magic, the supernatural and high-tech
with Sherlockian deductions (and cryptic observations straight out
of Doyle's canon) suggests a long life for Hapthorn."
- Publishers Weekly
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