Noble Phasic

by David L. McClard

In a dark future about 100 years from now in a post-apocalyptic city-state called Vero City, the story unfolds with chapters alternating between several seemingly unrelated stories which eventually merge. A benevolent exarch of the Grand Senate n

284 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2007

About the author

David grew up fascinated by the imagined stories that would play out endlessly between his army of G.I. Joes and the few Transformers that his older brother would allow him to have. The tableaus between the human armies of good, the sub-human forces of evil, and alien robots from Cybertron planted the seeds of a lifelong obsession with weaving stories of the fantastic.
Life began anew when in childhood he moved out of the Strangelands of Louisiana to the megalopolis of Houston. In high school he learned quickly how to enrage his English teachers and get repeatedly suspended for a number of subversive activities including walking out of class, hijacking morning announcements, and more than anything advocating binge drinking amongst underage classmates via the nefarious croquet club in a bid for intramural renown.
Once that storm passed, David went on to study communication at the University of Hawaii, Sophia University in Tokyo, and ultimately accepting a degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Those years, which included a presidency at the Omega Chi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, were characterized by more croquet, beer and a number of other new, unsavory activities that will surely end up in his posthumous memoirs.
A couple of long years after graduating university, David went off to study law in Houston. Aspiring to become a traffic ticket cop, this was the time when he also finally found the discipline to write. The attorney track did not work out as planned, and the subsequent misadventure stemming from a collapsed legal job market led him to live and work in Portland, Oregon and the much less caucazoidal Hong Kong for two inspiring back-to-back jaunts.
Upon returning home to Houston, David settled into a life of muted adventure and solitary workmanship, determined to shamelessly use his writing as an emotional and psychological crutch for his day job as an oil field drilling technology specialist. He still plays croquet.