| Simon Sellars is a Melbourne-based freelance writer and editor and a research fellow at RMIT University's Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory. In 2009, he graduated with a PhD from Monash University with a thesis that 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 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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