Cliff Pratt is now retired, but was formerly in the Information Technology business. He is welcoming the leisure to write books, which he couldn't do while he was working in the IT business. He is still interested in technology, and runs Ubuntu Linux at home, not the more common Windows. He has self-published three books. One is a novel, "The Last Beautiful Woman", about a woman who ages very slowly and hides away from the world in an isolated retreat. The second is a book which describes how he self-published the first book, and is boringly titled "How I Wrote and Self Published My First Book". The third book which he has just recently published is called "The Mage and The Boffin" and is about a couple who represent the disciplines of Science and Magic. He hopes one day to sell a copy of one of these books. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand, the most southerly capital city in the world, a beautiful city, in a beautiful country at the end of the world.