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Are you ready for adventure? If you are, and don't mind a sleepless night or two, then you're ready for hard science fiction. My background is in science, with a physics background and years of work in astronomy research and computer science. What started it all for me was a fascination with astronomy that consumed me when I was very young. It's a common story for astronomers, being captured as a child and never getting over it. My workshop still sports a couple of 6 inch Newtonian telescopes, as well as a couple of small refractor telescopes.

I also became interested in science fiction as a youngster. It provided some sense of satisfaction by stimulating my already intense interest in science. Having written and published technical material over the years, I began to turn my interests to the long held desire of writing science fiction.

It's been a long journey, this pursuit of writing science fiction. But with years of work and training billowing my sails, I've put the preparation into practice.

Mostly I write science fiction adventures, but fantasy is also forthcoming. My current works are stories of suspense cast in the future and based on hard science.

There's plenty of mystery in the novels as well. My decades of science and engineering experience have taught me that problems can be complex, and inspirational solutions usually prove to be at best only partially correct. Problems are solved with successive refinement.

That's what happens in my stories. The plots are complex. Characters struggle to figure out the entanglements that put them at risk, and they don't always get the right answer. You'll have to do better than the characters to see what's coming, and I don't think that you will.

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I invite you to review plot summaries of my current works to see if they strike your fancy. If they do, there are links to where you can purchase the stories, either in paperback format or as downloadable PDF files. I hope you try the paperback format, because I think you'll like the cover art which I also designed. But if you prefer the PDF files, you'll have a bargain way to get the novels at less than $3.00 apiece. For the novel previews, go to Oracle Dodd Preview and Children of Tau Ceti Preview.

I also invite you to explore a site loaded with exciting sci fi works, many from new and intriguing authors. Take a journey into new realms of consciousness at New Sci-FI -- you'll never regret it.

Science -- The Real Thing

If what you crave is real science, then I offer you a number of choices. First, you can get your celestial bearings by going to my Small Telescope Astronomy site at astronomyhints.com. There you'll find articles on Galaxy Formation, Black Holes, and of course The Big Bang.

If you want to learn about the different types of telescopes, astronomyhints.com will tell you what you need to know. If you want to learn a bit about astrophotography, or even how to turn a web cam into an excellent astrocamera, then astronomyhints.com is the place. And if you want to read reviews on a number of different telescopes, from small refractors to a planet busting long focus Newtonian, well, you know where to go.

If computer science is more your thing, I invite you to check out my Linux site at linuxgoodies.com. There you'll learn why I've used Linux -- for years. How to move from Windows to Linux. You'll find reviews of Linux astronomy programs, like Xephem, Kstars, and Stellarium.

At linuxgoodies.com you'll also find reviews of several math languages available in Linux, such as Scilab, Perl PDL, Octave, Tela, Euler, R, and my favorite, Yorick.

You can also learn how to resuscitate an old laptop by switching to Linux, and how to make documents in Linux, and even how (if you must) to run Windows from within Linux by using a Virtual Machine. Where is all this information, (plus more because it's always growing)? At linuxgoodies.com, of course.