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Dan Melson

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Many varied and eclectic interests from science to history to finance to economics.

I live with The World's Only Perfect Woman, two daughters I am preparing for world domination, and a variable number of dachshunds.
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Dan Melson There isn't a single silver bullet answer to this question. The idea for Rediscovery came to me while dealing with a lengthy medical appointment. Prep…moreThere isn't a single silver bullet answer to this question. The idea for Rediscovery came to me while dealing with a lengthy medical appointment. Preparations for War happened while I was driving. Fountains of Aescalon was a long-delayed reaction to a piece of Imperial history I'd written for myself decades ago. Gates to Faerie was a challenge I'd set myself to write a different kind of protagonist. The Politics of Empire series is because I wanted to tell more stories about Grace, but didn't want to make them dependent upon someone having read Rediscovery first.(less)
Dan Melson I'm doing some re-reading of old favorites right now. Just finished The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and have now started The Fello…moreI'm doing some re-reading of old favorites right now. Just finished The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and have now started The Fellowship Of The Ring by JRR Tolkien. Once I have the trilogy and the Silmarillion finished, then I'll find something new.(less)
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Recently, the page was attacked by people trying to send out spam.Evidently, Movable Type of the version I had is vulnerable, and updating within Movable Type is severely costly.The solution is I will have to move things to Word Press. It's going to take a while to get the old articles up. You'll know it has started when this message disappears, but it's going to have to be done manually.
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“Aren't there any adults on your planet?”
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“Aren't there any adults on your planet?”
Dan Melson, The Man From Empire

“The Belt, for all its lonely reaches—or because of them—was as neighborly as a village. They gossiped among themselves, by suit radio. Out in the shining blackness it was good to know that, if something went wrong, there was a man listening not five hundred miles away who would come and investigate if you broke off and did not answer.”
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