My name is Samuel Te Kani and I am a Maori and New Zealand European homo hailing from Northland, belonging to iwis Nga Puhi Tainui and Ngati Porou. My interest has generally orbited science fiction and fantasy from a very young age, mostly through compulsive consumption of film and television. Growing up poor meant going to the library was one of the few leisure activities my family could actually afford, out of which came a still deeply entrenched book lust that has only served to pique my initial romances with wildly escapist genres; only now I see them for being succinct laboratories in which the variables of potential futures are drawn, as opposed to mere entertainment.
