Aidan has always been interested in writing science fiction and made his first sale when he was 18. He’s had short stories and articles published in magazines, newspapers and web sites. He’s been a finalist for the Aurealis Awards, several of his stories have received honorable mentions in Year’s Best SF anthologies, and he was the youngest writer to have an entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy.

In 2009 Aidan attended the Clarion South science fiction writing workshop in Brisbane. Clarion South was an Australian version of the US Clarion workshops, but unfortunately hasn’t run for a number of years.

He did a computer science degree at Monash University in Melbourne. After university he worked for an Australian computer games company as a programmer and designer. He’s also worked as a software consultant and web site programmer.

Aidan has an entry in the Internet Movie Database. (For a computer game he worked on). His IF game, Bolivia By Night was nominated for 2 XYZZY awards.

Some of the interesting places he’s visited include: North Korea, Belarus, the Galapagos and Transnistria (not officially a real country). He worked in Bolivia for a short time as a journalist for a Bolivian English-language newspaper.  He lived in Osaka in for 4 years and worked as an English teacher. Now he’s working as a web site programmer.

Aidan co-edited the anthology, Sword and Sonnet – a book of science fiction and fantasy stories about battle poets.

He’s had articles and stories translated into Finnish, Mandarin, Romanian, Polish, Hebrew, Catalan and Galician.

His list of writer’s problems – The Science Fiction Writer’s Hierarchy of Doubt – is the result of years of research, consultation with industry professionals, and several failed bids for the Galactic Senate.