M. J. Simpson

M. J. Simpson
M.J. Simpson

Mike Simpson, photographed in 2005
Born United Kingdom
Occupation Writer, journalist, editor critic

Mike "Simo" Simpson, professionally known as MJ Simpson, is a former deputy editor of the British science fiction magazine SFX. The Leicester-based freelance journalist is the author of two books on the television writer and novelist Douglas Adams[1][2] and his work:

  • The Pocket Essentials Hitchhiker's Guide
  • Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams, an unauthorised biography.

He produces a website focussed upon genre cinema and is currently working on a biography of the actress Elsa Lanchester.

Simpson is one of the occasional judges for the Delta Film Award.

Simpson was for many years involved in running ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitchhiker's Guide appreciation society.

References

  1. ^ Publishers Weekly
  2. ^ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, listing both Simpson's Hitchhiker and his earlier "pocket guide" to the series

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