André Michael Czausov

André is a web designer/developer based in Melbourne, Australia. He has long harbored an ambition to storytelling which has seen his output include an interactive CD-ROM (long ago when such things were – ahem – fashionable), short stories and plays. Aside from one unpublished draft of an earlier attempt at long-form fiction written many years ago, Supermassive will be his first novel.

A career journeyman, André completed studies in journalism and literature at university, has studied industrial design, and holds a postgraduate diploma in film and television (interactive media specialisation). Somehow from this base he has found work in IT development and UX design. Lately he has formed an interest in cinema VFX and matte painting. While work in this area is hard to get for a neophyte, he intends to bring these skills to the project by illustrating the richness of the Elite universe and Jameson’s struggle against Jones.

As already mentioned, he has always had a primal urge towards storytelling and illustration. With this project he has managed to combine these two plus his age old love of the video game Elite and its unique self-encapsulated universe. An Elite player since 1986, he never quite reached that coveted ultimate rating — but has certainly suffered his share of terror at the marauding claws of Thargoids while trapped in witch-space, and inadvertently scraped off bits of hull alloy whilst trying to dock a Cobra MkIII.