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Mauri Niininen
I had the opportunity to visit Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in March 2014. I contacted people from the local ham radio amateur club station KP4AO and Angel WP3R replied quickly with a promise to arrange a visit.
For details see this blog post on the visit: http://ag1le.blogspot.com/2014/04/vis...
I got the idea of writing a book on what happens when we finally establish a contact with extraterrestrial intelligence during that visit. Then, one year later during my summer vacation I wrote the story basically in five days. I shared the early drafts with my friends and also asked for comments from the expert - Dana Whitlow K8YUM who was my host at Arecibo. After fifteen different versions I finally published the book in the Amazon Kindle store.
Since this was my first book ever I didn't really have big expectations. As an engineer I write mostly on technical topics, so writing a science fiction book was a new experience for me. I was positively surprised when I got such a good feedback on this first book.
For details see this blog post on the visit: http://ag1le.blogspot.com/2014/04/vis...
I got the idea of writing a book on what happens when we finally establish a contact with extraterrestrial intelligence during that visit. Then, one year later during my summer vacation I wrote the story basically in five days. I shared the early drafts with my friends and also asked for comments from the expert - Dana Whitlow K8YUM who was my host at Arecibo. After fifteen different versions I finally published the book in the Amazon Kindle store.
Since this was my first book ever I didn't really have big expectations. As an engineer I write mostly on technical topics, so writing a science fiction book was a new experience for me. I was positively surprised when I got such a good feedback on this first book.
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