Dave Freer lives on a remote island off the coast of Australia, with his wife Barbara, several dogs, cats, pigs and chickens, in a sort of chaotic experiment into self-sufficiency, supplemented by a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. He the author or co-author of some 19 novels (hard to keep track) including SLOW TRAIN TO ARCTURUS, which was listed as a Wall Street Journal sf bestseller. Various other books have been on Locus bestseller lists. He is also the author of a large number of shorter works.