Julia Hawkes-Reed is a Unix hacker by day. By night, too, if it’s been one of those sorts of weeks. Her origin story involves finding the big yellow Gollancz hardbacks in Winchcombe public library, the ‘Making a transistor radio’ Ladybird book and the John Peel programme. The 2006 Viable Paradise writer’s workshop was something of a life-changing experience, and she has been quietly emitting stories of varying length since then. One of those stories can be found in the anthology ‘Airship shape and Bristol fashion II’. She is fascinated by cold-war architecture, islands and stationary engines. Julia does not own enough synths or tractors.