Born at an early age of mixed parents, a man and a woman, early childhood was a disaster; my imaginary playmate would have nothing to do with me, though I myself thought the kid was great. Since then it’s been all downhill.

Seriously, a former aerospace engineer with a keen interest in ancient history, classical music and speculative fiction—long jumps in interest, but true — I spent decades designing flight systems hardware in Lockeed’s Space System Division, where a career high point was working on a recently declassified, five-year program codenamed AZORIAN that sucessfully retrieved a Soviet naval submarine from the deep Pacific north of Hawaii.

Currently the author of (10) fiction titles ranging from (8) speculative fiction works, to (1) historical novel & to (1) satirical spoof on the aerospace industry:

Touchstone

Sometimes the Dragon Wins

Triage

No One Goes There Now

Memo to the Leader

Olympus Mons

Mind Games

Arminius

It's Too Late to Leave Early

All of which, in one form or another, were published by Doubleday, Inc. (1971); St. Martin's Press (1979) and Virtualbookworm.com, Inc. an online publisher.