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Marti Ward

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Sydney, Australia
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Marti Ward is an award-winning writer, teacher, researcher and entrepreneur known for his serial startups and his interdisciplinary work from the behavioural, cognitive, health and information sciences to environmental and robotic engineering - but he writes under several variants of his name.

Marti is well known for his award-winning Paradisi Lost Missions novels as well as the new Quantum Talents series, and has recently coauthored the aclaimed Moonchild and Klandor Rising series with B. Ward Powers.

Marti hasn't been into space yet, but has travelled extensively on this planet - living in half a dozen countries and speaking and reading a variety of languages with varying degrees of fluency. He hasn't yet built an AI as sophisticated as Al
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