Tony Ballantyne
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Anthony Ballantyne,is a British science-fiction author who is most famous for writing his debut trilogy of novels, Recursion, Capacity and Divergence. He is also Head of Information Technology and an Information Technology teacher at The Blue Coat School, Oldham and has been nominated for the BSFA Award for short fiction.
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[edit] Personal life
He has 2 children 2 nephews and three nieces Ben, James, Laura, Sophie, Laura
[edit] Extracurricular/Enrichment activities at Blue Coats
In addition to his standard teaching duties, Tony has been involved in notable extra-curricular enrichment activities. He was the instigator of the lunchtime 'Java Club' at the school. This was/is an extra-curricular group he set up to teach interested students the Java programming language. It is to Tony's credit that many of the pupils who attended this club have since gone on to become highly proficient Java programmers.
[edit] Trivia
Tony has been noted to have a penchant for using the word 'sausage' to describe items in his ICT classes, particularly when seeking examples of class instance objects to use when teaching object-orientated programming to his students. He typically uses this in a similar context to that of Foo in computer science, ie as a variable to represent the name of a subroutine, variable, or any other programmer named part of a program.
[edit] Partial bibliography
- The Sixth VNM (1998)
- SOLDIER.EXE (1999)
- Gorillagram (1999)
- Single-Minded (2000)
- Restoring the Balance (2001)
- Restoring the Balance, 2 (2001)
- Real Man (2001)
- A New Beginning (2001)
- Indecisive Weapons (2001)
- Teaching the War Robot to Dance (2002)
- Recursion (2004)
- Capacity (2005)
- Divergence (2007)
- Autobiography entitled "The Road to Tony" (2008)
- Twisted Metal (2009)
[edit] External links
- Tony Ballantyne's Official Site
- Tony Ballantyne at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Tony Ballantyne's online fiction at Free Speculative Fiction Online
- Talking to The Machines: An Interview With Tony Ballantyne, The Agony Column for June 28, 2004, Interview Conducted by Rick Kleffel.
- The Recursive Man: an interview with Tony Ballantyne by Eric Brown
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