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The idea for my debut novel was born the moment I first thrilled to a humpback whale rocketing from the deep blue sea. My writing is informed by a twenty-five-year Silicon Valley software engineering career that's led to five patents in wireless voice technology. In the adaptation of voice and modem algorithms for communication devices, I was fascinated by theoretical and physical foundations of speech. The realization that human speech evolved into a process of shape-writing and shape-matching is the inspiration for the interspecies communication experiments featured in my fictional trilogy-in-progress, "The Torch of Prometheus." To learn about the underlying principles common ...more

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The Whale Song Translation

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Thoughts About POV, Genre & Craft

Judging by the extreme reactions to my novel, I thought I should clarify some things.

If your intention is to escape into a formulaic sci-fi world of anthropomorphized cetaceans, or if you're a "take no prisoners" Strunk and White minimalist, don't bother with The Whale Song Translation. However, if you appreciate the mind food that propels a paradigm-busting voyage of discovery, then read on.

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