Dutchman Django Mathijsen (www.djangomathijsen.nl) is the only author who's won the Unleash Award, the most prestigious Dutch SF-story award, three times.

As a son of professional musicians, he was a jazz-organist while graduating as an engineer at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He was technical consultant on the award winning British TV-programs Robot Wars and TechnoGames. And as a science journalist he's written over three hundred articles for English and Dutch magazines.

Now, he concentrates on writing music and fiction. His first novel, a science fiction techno-thriller published in Dutch in March 2010, was based on Mando's story.