Peter Barrett lives at a small Australian bush location on a hundred-acre property in the Northern Tablelands district of New South Wales. He was born and grew up on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. He has spent a lifetime reading Evolutionary Science, Science Fiction, History and comics as a child. He has written three Science Fiction books in The Alloy series and eleven short stories. He was not exposed to television until age eleven. He travelled extensively with his parents, and his father, an Exploration Geologist, his Mother a Mother-craft Nurse. He has two University degrees, one in Applied Psychology and one in Archives and Records Management, which have no relation to his former career as a Cook, Photographic Technician, and Ophthalmic Technician.