Accretion: A Decade of Writing

by Rick Novy

A sampling of the stories from the author’s first decade of writing. Also includes two non-fiction articles from prior years. Table of Short Magnetic Monopoly Hole in the Wall Neanderthal Swan Song Contractual Obligation The Cosmology The Problem with Immortality One Way Trip The Artifact Chaos Theory The Problem with Petunias State Secrets The Adjoa Gambit The Turbulent Birth of the Lick Observatory After the Campfire Dies

124 pages, Paperback

First published April 27, 2011

About the author

Rick Novy makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics (double major).

He moved to California and lived in the Bay Area for a decade, during which he earned a masters of science in engineering at San Jose State University. In 1999 he moved to Arizona (it’s a wry heat).

Rick spent 14 years as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He is currently adjunct faculty in the mathematics department at a local community college.

Rick has more interests than he has time to devote. He is a fish keeper suffering from MTS (multiple tank syndrome).