Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

He was a Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s and is married and has two children. For example his chapter titles such as "Trusted Third Parties" or "Revolutionary Platform" usually have double (or multiple) meanings. Biography
Macleod was born in Stornoway Scotland on 2nd August 1954.