About the Author

I have a Bachelor Degree in Science and have worked with various companies in various roles in the field of science. I am currently working with a prominent proteomics research facility in the Macquarie University in Sydney.

I was born in the middle of England in the middle of last century. Throughout my youth I was fascinated with playing games and with the world of fantasy and imagination. I was weaned on such classics as Aesop’s Fables, Mother Goose and the works of Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grim. When I came to Australia, in my mid teens, I had to leave all of my toys and games behind. I never got back into playing games until I was about thirty years old and settled.

In my late teens and early twenties I was heavily into music and played guitar. Back then everybody was doing it. I wrote poems and about a dozen songs, most of them bad. I watched all the sci-fi on TV. There was not much of that and virtually no fantasy to speak of. I started about a dozen novels none of which I finished, mostly because of the interruption of the creative process represented by going to university and working.

I wrote about thirty six episodes of a sci-fi series which failed to sell. One response I received was that ‘There’s too much of this stuff on TV already’. Ironically at the time there was only Doctor Who and Star Trek on TV.

I actually finished my first novel at around the age of thirty or thirty one. That is Zeebran which was inspired by the death of my grandfather

I discovered Dungeons and Dragons, coming to it late, in about 1985, after it had been around for ten years and its early fans had played it to death and moved on to other games. After much experimentation with the game, I was informed that nobody had ever taken a character through from the beginning all the way to immortality according to ‘the rules’. I decided I would do that and write down what happened, so that I would have a written record of the journey, proof that it had been done. Thus began the endless Saga of The Quest For Immortality Series.

I can’t pretend that my work is high art or at all great literature, neither is it written to push any particular moral point of view. As Homer Simpson once said… ‘There is no moral… it’s just a bunch of stuff that happened.’

Denzil Oakes