"Blackford in December 2005."@en . . . . "He has worked as an academic, in labour relations, in professional legal practice in the Melbourne offices of Phillips Fox Lawyers, one of Australia's leading commercial law firms, and as a full-time writer. As of 2008, Russell Blackford became a graduate student and sessional teacher in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University. His writing\u2014fiction and non-fiction\u2014frequently explores issues of technology, power, freedom, and the human desire for immortality."@en . "Writer, philosopher and critic"@en . "Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, and has lived there since."@en . "Russell Blackford"@en . "Australian"@en . . "Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror"@en . . "Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, based in Melbourne, Victoria. He was born in Sydney, and grew up in Lake Macquarie district, near Newcastle, NSW. He moved to Melbourne in 1979, and has lived there since."@en . . . . . . "He has worked as an academic, in labour relations, in professional legal practice in the Melbourne offices of Phillips Fox Lawyers, one of Australia's leading commercial law firms, and as a full-time writer. As of 2008, Russell Blackford became a graduate student and sessional teacher in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University. His writing\u2014fiction and non-fiction\u2014frequently explores issues of technology, power, freedom, and the human desire for immortality. Blackford is internationally known as a science fiction critic and advocate of the sf genre, and contribute frequently to The New York Review of Science Fiction."@en . . . "Russell Blackford"@en .