No, I wanted to be an astronaut.

When I was 11 Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I thought we would be living in space stations and have a base on the Moon and Mars by 1990.

While NASA was sending rockets into space:

My grandparents still had an out-house toilet and a wood stove.

We got our first black and white TV when I was 5, before that we listened to the radio and I thought there were little people inside it.

When I first went to school I wrote on a slate.

We had mosquito nets which we'd tuck under our mattress so we'd be able to sleep without being eaten alive by mossies.

We kept chickens in the back yard (next to the shed behind me and Zorro). Every morning I would feed the chickens and collect the eggs. If the rooster got out I had to chase him around the yard and catch him before I walked to school

When I was ten I read 50 books from the school library. At home we had one book shelf with maybe 15 books. I read Shakespear, Dickens and Longfellow's 'Hiawatha', and dreamed of time travel and living on the moon.

I didn't understand why I had nothing in common with the other kids at school. I didn't realise that my favourite books and movies were all speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction and horror). When I was 18 I met other SF fans and discovered there were people like me.

Now days everyone knows what Faster than Light Drive is and I turned my dreams into books.

Believe in yourself.