Stardrive

About the Book

The Author wrote the stories at Lone Mountain College, University of San Francisco, between 1972 and 1975. His mentor Patrick Sweeney, who also chose the name, Stardrive, actually a title of a story he rejected from the book, chose the collection. The stories reflect the author’s preoccupation with science fiction and the urge to become someone. A quarter of a century later, looking back, the stories reflect both the wild times of the early Seventies, of sex, whatever and Rock and Roll, as well as the insecurities of an adolescent who has left his tiny native country of Slovenia to survive in the enormous United States of America.

About the Author

Matjaž Šinkovec, the Slovenian John Hancock, has been everything from a doer to a conformist, high school anticommunist revolutionary, California hippie, radical nonsmoker, government employee, trade unionist, active opposition figure, member of parliament, ambassador to a couple of countries and international organizations. He holds the world speed record for driving at legal/tolerated speed from London to Ljubljana in a mini van, with his wife, two human and one feline child, at 13h43min. His cooking is appreciated by many and he’s working on an international cookbook. He agrees with British women that men are only useful for two three letter words, the other one being DIY, which translates as Home Improvement in the States. He can do concrete, bricks, tiling, carpentry, drywall, electrical work and plumbing. His painting sucks. He started writing stories when he was six, typing with his right index finger and after over four decades he still has not progressed, only the machines have. He’s written a number of works of which only a few were published; most of them were never submitted as he’s on the shy side. He’s also translated and edited a number of books, stories, motion picture and TV works. He’s written a few pop/rock songs and put together only one demo. He’s been educated in Slovenia, the United States, Spain and Portugal. He’s lectured, among other institutions, at Oxford, Cambridge, London, LSE, Princeton, Stanford. He loves swimming and sailing and travel but there’s no time. He’s slept on train floors and luggage racks, as well as in beds used by queens, princesses, prime ministers. He’s been lauded by a number of world famous figures as well slandered in the press for alleged tax evasion, living like a king on the backs of tax payers, and consorting with a famous porn star turned politician. He’s written a book of rules of life he’s afraid to release as it might portray him as a pessimist which is exactly the opposite he believes he is.