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Nicholas
Playford was born in the storeroom of a Canberra hospital on 5 May
1961, the same day that Alan Shepard became the first American to leave planet Earth and travel into space. His father’s family
has
been
involved in South Australian and national politics for a number of
generations. His mother’s family
came to Australia as refugees
from
Lithuania in
1949. He has a history degree from Adelaide University and worked for
several years as a policy adviser in the PM’s
Department in Canberra
and later for the Victorian Premier’s
Department. He has continued to write
occasional fiction and also on nanotechnology, futurology and
spirituality (including under his current name, Avatar Polymorph). Ill from 1996 to 2007, he has been based around Fitzroy,
Melbourne, since 1990, including for various Performance Art and other art projects.
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