The Writers of Wales Database

GREENRIDGE, JOHN

Email: john.greenridge@virginmedia.com

John was born in the Scottish Borders in 1932. After leaving school he followed a career in medical laboratory science, eventually obtaining the top-of-career post as Principal Medical Laboratory Scientist with a Cardiff group of hospitals. He was part of an ‘On Call’ emergency laboratory team for seventeen years. During his employment, he made significant changes to the provision of laboratory services to GPs in Cardiff. John also served on a British Standards Committee for several years. He has been published in Medical Technologist, Institute of Medical Laboratory Science, Institute of Biology, British Medical Journal, Lancet and the Health and Social Service Journal. 

John served a total of sixteen years with the RAMC TA. During his service, John was part of a five-man team that won the 1959 and 1960  national Edward VII Challenge Shield. His social interests include canal and river cruising, grass bowls and watching rugby. As a bowler with one of Cardiff’s local bowls clubs, he won several club trophies. In 1974, he was the beaten finalist in the prestigious Welsh Champions Cup – the Cratchley Bowl. John married in 1956 and has two sons and four grandchildren.

In 1972, John took a Masters degree in Management and Technology in the University in Cardiff. He was already a charter member of the Institute of Biology and is now a life-member. In 1977, the Queen rewarded him with the Silver Jubilee Medal for continuous service throughout her reign. He was made redundant in 1987 due to changes in the management structure in NHS laboratories and opened a computer software business. John provided computer courses and installed computer networks throughout South Wales for the next twelve years until he retired.

With no set work to do, John started writing novels inspired by his passion for science. His first book, Zondor the Great (AuthorHouse, 2010), must have been a ‘download’ from somewhere in space, since he cannot identify the source of all the verbiage. A second novel, entitled A Stroke of Misfortune, is in production.

Selected Publications:
Zondor the Great (AuthorHouse, 2010)
A Stroke of Misfortune (forthcoming)



Zondor the Great (AuthorHouse, 2010)

The events depicted in this book have all been adapted and embellished in order to create this science fiction novel (spot the join, if you can). However, most of the content espouses a more-or-less true record of time travels by the author. The scientific theory embodied within the novel should give cosmic scientists a nudge in the right direction. It offers a brand new hypothetical understanding of how the Universe actually operates.

John knows that, as normal living and breathing human beings (rather than the Mechanical, Intelligent Memory Units; MIM Units;, as described by Zondor), you wont be tempted to believe this story. That is, until it happens to you – the average sane, human reader. Yet recent scientific discoveries offer some credence to the tale.

Those new theories, while similar to my experience, depend on the idea of the projection of the Universe as a hologram – and modern scientists owe some sympathy to the idea. They have not had the dubious benefit of my experiences as a guide, however. So the idea of projecting serial electronic pictures across a time-continuum and onto an event horizon has not hit the new-science headlines so far, even though the technology exists for such events! Like all new science, my idea will have its arm-chair critics. The reader of this book is about to become one of those critics.

To the sceptic, I would ask the question, ‘How long is it since radio and television were invented/discovered? If you wrote a book about radio and television in the 19th Century, would you have ended up in the loony-bin? Most likely.

John Greenridge 2009

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