Simon Klapish
Simon has seven published novels.
Simon grew up in Manchester, U.K. (and still supports Manchester United!). Failing in his ambition to become a vet, he studied Applied Biology at Plymouth Polytechnic, majoring in microbiology and
parasitology, but jobs in anything interesting like working for the World Health Organisation in malaria research were impossible to land. So, he came to Australia in
1979, on a 12-month working visa, fell in love with the country, the pay rates, the people and lifestyle, returned home and applied for migration, returning as a migrant in January 1982.
He worked for Telecom/Telstra for 12 years, predominantly in MobileNet in business development and marketing roles, and introduced and managed the MessageBank voicemail system for mobile phone users.
Due to limited advancement opportunities at Telstra he moved into the power industry just ahead of the Victorian privatization process in 1995, first as the Marketing Executive
for Hazelwood Power, and when it was acquired by International Power, into business development roles, which included a major role in building 2 wind farms in South
Australia.
For the last 5 years of his 23 years in the power industry, he managed ENGIE’s Corporate Social Responsibility program, which provided a million dollars per year to
causes and organisations in the communities where its Australian power stations were located, mainly in Victoria, SA and WA.
He also spent almost 12 years in the Australian Army Reserve (Royal Australian Infantry), retiring as a captain in 1993. Apart from occasional consultancy work in
renewable energy project community consultation, he is semi-retired, and loves to travel, having ‘ticked off’ 92 countries so far.
The God Dilemma Chronicles.
A world suddenly awakes to the death of its entire Muslim population (Removal); versus a world awakening to the survival of only the Muslim population (Revelation). How will each new world react to the loss of 1.7 or 6.3 billion people overnight? Are these God-events or man-made, and will there now be world peace, or chaos?
See More For 15-year-old Charlie, in northern England, the deaths of his neighbours, friends, and way of life hit hard. But not as hard as the loss of his girlfriend, football team, internet, television, and school life. It was all very well for the four million Muslim population of the UK to own the wealth of the nation, but there were too few people left alive to run the country. What kind of a life was this going to be, and especially for his non-devout family?
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