conradbower.com
Writer who loves music, mountains, and motorcycles. He's also fond of many things that don't start with M.
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An excellent campaign to promote. How is it progressing in Parliament?
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I'm a writer from Bolton, UK. Published my first collection of grassroot political thriller short stories, with a protest theme, on 5 Nov 2024. Recently submitted two horror stories for an antholgy. Where should I submit a sci-fi political satire short to?
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The roads in India are defintely wild, with the most important feature on every vehicle being your horn. Loved riding a rented Enfield 350 round Goa.
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Go on, go on, go on... 🏍️🏍️🏍️
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I'm reading Stealing Speed: The Biggest Spy Scandal in Motorsport History by Matt Oxley.
Its about East German motorcycle racer Ernst Degner defecting to the west with the secrets of how to make powerful two stroke engines. He enabled the Japanese global dominance in sports bikes
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I bumped into some German bikers doing the NC500 a few years before I did the European trip, lovely people. I'm from Bolton myself.
The A87 upto the Kyle of Lochalsh is a fine biking road. Scotlands full of them.
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The right to roam is an ongoing struggle, one I covered in 'To Boldly Go' a short story in my collection that is set during the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896.
An article discussing the 'Echoes of Resistance' of that past struggle and the current one on #Dartmoor
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Get well soon Louise.
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Good, I'm a big fan of both & I like the idea that Adams might have been influenced by Floyd. Was aware of HHGTTG before Floyd, read them at 13, first books that made me laugh out loud. I was 16 and stoned in a coalfire lit bedsit, when I first heard Dark Side of the Moon. Bought it the next day.
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Maybe so, he was apparently a good friend of Dave Gilmour.
www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/...
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I wonder if the #PinkFloyd song 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' influenced #DouglasAdams writing #HGTTG, as Hotblack Desiato's ship is programmed to crash into the sun?
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