Julian Gough

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Julian Gough (born June 1966) is an Irish musician, novelist, and poet. Initially known as the singer and lyricist for the Galway band Toasted Heretic, he has since established a career as a satirist, novelist, commentator and writer of children's books. Musically, he is best known for his songs "Galway and Los Angeles", "You can Always go Home" and "LSD (isn't what it used to be)". Notable fictional works include the End Poem that appears at the end of the videogame Minecraft, as well as "The Orphan and the Mob", the first chapter of his novel Jude: Level 1, which won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007. Since 2022, Gough has been writing a blog, The Egg and the Rock, about his research extending Lee Smolin's theory of cosmological natural selection, which he believes has been neglected for sociological rather than scientific reasons.

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