I am an author of Science Fiction (both soft and hard), and science fact. I occasionally play with Fantasy, Paranormal, and Horror. The Horror is usually darkly humorous. More rarely I dash off a little mainstream-ish stuff for the not-too-squeamish.
I have been an avid and active amateur astronomer since 1947. I began writing at the professional level in 1956 when, at 16, I went to work as a technical writer and illustrator for Butler Publications in West Los Angeles, CA.
A brief change in my writing habits occurred when I became a naval architect, though I continued to write articles for trade magazines and journals on such things as yacht design, creative mathematics in design, applied physics, etc. When I "retired", I moved to Mexico to teach some folks how to build small craft, English as a second language, physics and observational astronomy.
I moved to New Mexico in 1998 where I worked at our local high school teaching mathematics, English, journalism, science and, of course, astronomy to the interested.
I now live in the southeast corner of New Mexico with my wife, Julieta, our son, Oscar, daughter Alexandra, her husband, and their 4 children. To round out the menagerie, we also support an insanely beautiful dog named Mars, 3 other dogs and 3 cats.
There are many ways to look at time and the way it affects our lives -- quite apart from the mundane 9 - 5 most of us live in.
The authors of TT II were challenged by the editor to come up with some original themes with original twists, and these are some of the results. The anthology is in two volumes, with ten contributors to each.
This reader is looking forward to the release of Twisted Tales III which will be focusing on FEAR. This promises to surpass the original anthologies -- that have already brought the genre back into the readers' eyes.