Note: I also publish an additional website:
• Planet Cooling — Geoengineering with solar sails at L1.
See www.planet-cooling.com.
I am a retired aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, living in Vancouver, Canada. My company, Kinetic Sciences Inc. built experimental robots for the space station, robots to clean up nuclear waste and miniature fingerprint sensors for cell phones. In 2005, I sold the corporate intellectual property to a Californian company. Since that time I have published several science fiction short stories, and completed two SF novels: Super-Earth Mother and Eye of the Beholder Super-Earth Mother will be published by EDGE SF&F in the summer of 2023.
My credentials include:
- “The Ice Cube” - Short Story; Geist - 2020 Postcard Story Contest, November 2020.
- “Manifest Destiny”- Short story published “Year’s Best Transhuman SF” GEHENNA & HINNOM Nov 2017 Download PDF of "Manifest Destiny," the prologue of the novel Super-Earth Mother.
- “Epilogue”- Short story, published in Tesseracts 20, Spring 2017
- “A Little Knowledge”- Short story, Postscripts #14, UK; April 2008 (Honorable Mention, Gardner Dozois 2008); Clarion West 2006 story
- “Super-Earth Mother”- Novelette, Extreme Planets anthology Feb 2014
- “Change of Heart”- Short Story, Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 24, Spring 2014
- The Eye of the Beholder (novel excerpts), Science Fiction Writers Sampler 2014 (work from seventeen contemporary science fiction authors).
- World-building for the last Heinlein novel, Variable Star, by Spider Robinson
- Graduate of Clarion West 2006 [Writers Workshop]
- Ancient Egypt’s Lost Legacy? – The Buduma Culture of Lake Chad; iBooks Author essay, Apple iTunes Store May 2013
- Smallpox, Slavery and Toubou Warriors – A Photo-Essay About the Sahel; iBooks Author essay, Apple iTunes Store April 2012
