Scottish science fiction writers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 23. Chapters: Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod, Steven Moffat, Duncan Lunan, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hal Duncan, Naomi Mitchison, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, Charles Stross, Alasdair Gray, Richard Gordon, John Grant, David Lindsay, Gary Gibson, J. T. McIntosh, Emma Maree Urquhart, Philip Kerr, David I. Masson, Return to the Lost Planet, Angus MacVicar, Dan Morgan, Donald Malcolm, Matthew Fitt, Alan W. Lear, Stephen Greenhorn, Michael Scott Rohan, Chris Boyce. Excerpt: Steven Moffat (born 18 November 1961; ) is a Scottish television writer and producer. Moffat's first television work was the teen drama series Press Gang. His first sitcom, Joking Apart, was inspired by the breakdown of his first marriage; conversely, his later sitcom Coupling was based upon the development of his relationship with television producer Sue Vertue. In between the two relationship-centred shows, he wrote Chalk, a sitcom set in a comprehensive school inspired by his own experience as an English teacher. A lifelong fan of Doctor Who, Moffat has written several episodes of the revived version and succeeded Russell T Davies as lead writer and executive producer when production of its fifth series began in 2009. In 2008 he scripted the first The Adventures of Tintin film for director Steven Spielberg. He co-created Sherlock, an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Many of the programmes upon which he has worked have won awards, including BAFTAs and Hugo Awards for some of his episodes of Doctor Who. Moffat was born in Paisley, Scotland, where he attended Camphill High School. He studied at the University of Glasgow, where he was involved with the student television station, GUST (Glasgow University Student Television). After gaining an MA degree in English from Glasgow, he worked as a teacher for three and a half years at Cowdenknowes High School, Greenock. In the 1980s he wrote a play entitled War Zones (performed at the 1985 Glasgow Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and a musical called Knifer. His father, Bill Moffat, was a head teacher at Thorn Primary School in Johnstone, Renfrewshire; when the school was used for Harry Secombe's Highway in the late 1980s, he mentioned to the producers that he had an idea for a television series about a school newspaper. The producers asked for a sample script, to which Bill Moffat agreed on condition his son write it. Producer Sandra Hastie said that it was "the best ever first script" that sh