Warren Ellis
Overview
 
Warren Girard Ellis is an English
England
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 author of comics, novel
Novel
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s, and television
Television
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, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist
Transhumanism
Transhumanism, often abbreviated as H+ or h+, is an international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human...

 themes (most notably nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...

, cryonics
Cryonics
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology...

, mind transfer
Mind transfer
Whole brain emulation or mind uploading is the hypothetical process of transferring or copying a conscious mind from a brain to a non-biological substrate by scanning and mapping a biological brain in detail and copying its state into a computer system or another computational device...

, and human enhancement
Human enhancement
Human enhancement refers to any attempt to temporarily or permanently overcome the current limitations of the human body through natural or artificial means...

). He is a resident of Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea
Southend-on-Sea is a unitary authority area, town, and seaside resort in Essex, England. The district has Borough status, and comprises the towns of Chalkwell, Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea, North Shoebury, Prittlewell, Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Thorpe Bay, and Westcliff-on-Sea. The district is situated...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

.
Ellis was born in Essex
Essex
Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

 in February 1968. Ellis has reported that the televised broadcast of the moon landing is his earliest coherent memory.
He was a student at the South East Essex Sixth Form College, commonly known as SEEVIC.
Quotations

"You people came looking for a mystery. But there is none. There's just us." "Did he say "Justice"?" "No. Just us."

You're about to discover the depth of strangeness and beauty the world holds.

We crisscross the world, making it right, making it strange, and the people never see our coming or our going.

You want to know the secret of the world? It's this : Save it, and it'll repay you, every second of every day.

It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

We're archaeologists. We'll dig you up and work it all out in a couple of years.

A Kenyan man once said to me "you can get used to everything when money's involved". He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks a time.

Lawyers. You can always recognize them by the bad pockets. Lawyers always carry drugs. Ruin the line of their pants.

Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by their politics; that what's make me get up and hound these fuckers, and I'll do that until the day I day, or until my brain dries up or something.

Barely twenty hours back in the city and I've already gone madder than a bastard on father's day.

 
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