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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 2004 Abingdon, Oxfordshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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BiographyHistory

Established by Ben Jeapes in 2001, Big Engine was a short-lived UK-based independent publisher of science fiction and fantasy. It achieved a reasonable reputation in its nearly three years, publishing eleven books and three issues of the magazine 3SF, but was eventually forced into voluntary liquidation.

The Big Engine authors and publications are Molly Brown (Bad Timing and Other Stories, 2001), David Pringle (editor, The Ant Men of Tibet and Other Stories, 2001), Gus Smith (Feather and Bone, 2001), Chris Amies (Dead Ground, 2001), David Langford (The Leaky Establishment, 2001, and The Uncollected John Sladek, 2002), Brian Stableford (Swan Songs: The Complete Hooded Swan Collection, 2002), Timothy Kenyon (Ersatz Nation, 2003), Vonda N. McIntyre (Nautilus, 2003), Tom Arden (q.v., Shadow Black, 2003), and Charlie Stross (Festival of Fools, 2004).

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  • Ben Jeapes was born in Belfast in 1965, and raised in Cornwall and Dorset. A graduate of Warwick University, where he studied philosophy and politics, Jeapes entered the publishing industry in 1987 through his mother's cousin Jessica Kingsley (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). In 1990, he left to join Learned Information, an Oxford-based company that organises conferences and publishes journals, and between 1997 and 2000 was employed by Isis Medical Media as development editor. Since the closing down of Big Engine in early 2004 (following the publication of Charlie Stross's Festival of Fools), Jeapes took up a position as technical editor for a computer network. He also continues to write in his spare time. Among his novels are Time's Chariot, His Majesty's Starship, Jeapes Japes, The New World Order, and The Ark.

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