| Simon Sellars is a research fellow at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, and an honorary research associate at the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University. In 2009, Simon graduated with a PhD from Monash University. His thesis analysed the 'affirmative dystopias' of the novelist J.G. Ballard. He is the editor and publisher of the popular website Ballardian. Besides various academic journals, Simon's writing on music, architecture,
film and animation has appeared in The Age, The Australian and
Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, Dwell magazine,
Overland magazine, Inside Film, RealTime magazine,
032c, Blueprint and The Big Issue. In a former
life, Simon performed extensive work for Lonely Planet Publications,
authoring around 20 guidebook chapters on destinations including
Japan, Micronesia, the Netherlands, East Coast Australia and the
Northern Territory. He has also written travel articles for a variety
of other publishers and publications, and he is a co-author of the
book Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-made Nations.
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