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Nunzio Addabbo is the TARGET *JFK* Capture Team
"insider" with the secrets and survivor of an assassination attempt because
he could identify two of the hit-men who targeted JFK. He is a retired
engineering/construction management consultant on some of the largest
worldwide projects, speaks English, Spanish, Italian and some Farsi. He is
an experienced technical writer, holds a U.S. pilot's navigation patent,
commendations from the National Academy of Sciences and Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory, an instrument rated commercial pilot with
licenses in the U.S., Canada, Chile and Iran, a FCC licensed amateur radio
operator, has been approved for entry into the 2002 Who's Who In America and
appeared on TV, radio and newspapers.
Elizabeth Addabbo
Elizabeth Addabbo is a well-traveled free-lance writer
and photographer. Some of her featured articles include: Puerto Rico, Gold
Mining Community of Julian, Tiburon, Larkspur, Carlsbad, Indian Culture of
Vancouver, Historic Wine Country of Sonoma and AT YOUR REQUEST, a weekly
column on food, travel, history and culture. She has been District, Regional
and National Director of Member Services for two major real estate
franchises and the owner/teacher of a real estate licensing school. In
addition to co-authoring TARGET *JFK*, she is authoring THE LIBERATION OF
VIVIENNE, an historical novel and co-authoring THE EPONYMOUS COOKBOOK.
Elizabeth and Nunzio have started the movie script for TARGET *JFK* .
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 E. Douglas Brown was born on the east coast of Canada on an island called
Newfoundland. He has lived in Europe for four years and while over there, he had
the opportunity to be a mountaineering guide for three months.
He moved back to Canada and eventually migrated back to Newfoundland to
attend university, majoring in psychology and with a minor in sociology. He took
on many jobs to support himself through university; landscaping, taxi driver, a
pizza delivery person and he was even a male stripper for a year. After
graduating, he took a job working in group homes with boys and girls. He has
worked in the oil fields of Alberta Canada, and eventually he ended up moving to
B.C., Canada, where he presently resides.
He has always wanted to write, but felt he didn’t have the ability to
succeed at it. However, he always kept his creativity flowing. He used to write
comedy skits for himself and friends to perform in front of an audience. He
writes poetry, with three published poems at this time, and he is also writing a
play himself. He is currently finishing up another book and working on two more.
He lives in a small town of B.C., Canada, called Sicamous, with his preteen
son. He is a single dad who sometimes finds it hard to find the time to write;
considering he has work, cook, help his son with school work and other chores to
do. But as long as he can write something, then he is happy.
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Lyle Courtsal is a disabled author/activist who has worked
variously as a school bus driver, tree planter, truck driver, and shipyard
laborer. He has also attended three colleges, but prefers studying on his
own. During the past several years, he has developed a street outreach
method for getting intensively self-poisoned, dually-diagnosed addict/alcoholics
off the streets and into truly helpful hands while maintaining constitutional
standards of non-discrimination and privacy. His technique has an 80
percent success rate.
Lyle likes really big, old, live trees; Frisbees; sailing;
mid-70s long nose Kenworths going really fast; hardcore rock; true decency;
generosity of spirit; and freedom. He presently more-or-less exists in
Seattle, Washington. He goes to church at least once a month whether he
needs it or not. He also has a website at http://www.dopewar.org.
Check it out. Enjoy!
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 Anthony
Dalton is a Canadian author with hundreds of newspaper and magazine
articles, many on boating related subjects, to his credit. A keen sailor,
he and his wife, Penny, enjoy cruising British Columbia’s coastal waters
in their 33’ sloop, Retreat, with their Dalmatian, Mr. Parker.
A long time fan of the late Tristan Jones, Anthony
Dalton is currently writing a biography,Wayward
Sailor: A Search For The Real Tristan Jones.
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Steven Dong’s history as a writer stretches nearly
thirty-five years back in time from recent fanfic serials for the
alt.games.diablo newsgroup and instructional HTML manuals, all the way back
to an illustrated short work from preschool in which a neighborhood bully
was devoured by a tyrannosaurus rex. Other crimes to which he is willing to
admit at this time include a pair of musical Star Trek parodies, and holding
the world’s record for “Greatest Quantity of Original
Dungeons-and-Dragons-Based Material Created by an Author Not Still Living
With His Parents.”
He is a recovering comic book collector and graduate of
UC Santa Cruz. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two young
daughters. In his spare time, he sporadically maintains the Tales of the
Boojum Web site (http://theboojum.com/Tales/),
where you can read more of his work and even more of this exciting bio.
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David G. Frazee was born in 1940 in New Jersey where he lived
until finishing high school. He then attended Pennsylvania Military College,
now Widener University, in Chester, PA. After graduating in 1962 with a B.S. in
Chemistry, he spent three years with Uncle Sam in Army Intelligence. Upon
discharge he went to work for DuPont. Thirty three plus years later he decided
to pack it in and retire, moving with his wife, Carol, to Henderson, NV, twenty
minutes from the Las Vegas Strip.
His hobbies were always music, science fiction, model
trains and a brief period of sailboat racing thrown in for good measure. Today,
trains for David are the size called G-Scale (G for garden), which one normally
finds running in a back yard. That, plus some SciFi, is what led to the writing
of his first book “The Garden Train: The Ride, Company Espionage and ‘The Other
Computer’”.
His love for music has led him to learn to play the Native
American Flute and is now writing music for that instrument, hoping to publish a
book of original songs in the next six to nine months.
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 Pier Fuhrman was born in Stockton California in
1965. She is a graduate of Rhema
Bible School and Kensington University, with a Bachelor's degree in
Sociology.
From age 16, Pier spent summers in the Virgin Islands
on St. Thomas and St. Croix, working for Island Landscape. At the
young age of 21, she opened a small gift shop in Manteca, California,
which she sold three years later in order to move to Los Angeles, where
she began a cleaning and gardening service.
She was forced to give up her successful business at age 27 when
she suffered a stroke that left her confined to a wheelchair.
This experience left her with an intense interest in
health and led her to begin Bella Vita Consulting, which specializes in
helping people break free from the stresses of daily life to create the
lives they desire. Bella Vita
also sells a variety of natural health products.
Being wheelchair-bound led to Pier starting her writing career.
Her first book was the originally-named Cat's Without Bodies
And Snakes With Wigs, which is a
rollicking space adventure. This
book was soon followed by its sequel, Social Justice
Abounds. During the long
recovery from her stroke, Pier also wrote and illustrated several
children's books. After ten
years of convalescence, Pier has finally left her wheelchair behind, and
has completed one year of schooling toward her Doctor of Naturopathy
degree. And, if life wasn’t
busy enough already, she is also preparing for the examination to obtain
her Real Estate Brokers license.
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Kevin Gildea was born in Elmira, New York in 1969. He is
currently a senior at Missouri Southern State College in Joplin, MO. His
major is Psychology with a supporting area in Economics and Finance. He
will be studying at Oxford University in England during the summer of
2000.
Kevin has been a life long student of military history and
weaponry. He spent four years working on electrical and electronic systems
in an industrial setting.
Kevin and his wife Colleen have two children, J. R. and
Bridgette, ages six and four and enjoy spending time together as a family.
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 Although
the "call to write" was not acted upon until the later years of
the author's life, there always existed that spark of aspiration for
written expression. A bit of rhymed verse and song lyrics emerged during
his formative and early teen years but no efforts were made at that time
to develop such interests. His flair for written expression was not
wasted, however, for it helped carry him through two lengthy careers. The
first was in administration, accounting and finance in the US Air Force.
The second as a field auditor in state government. Full retirement
re-ignited his creative writing desires and, following the successful
completion of an upgraded course in juvenile writing from the Institute
For Children's Literature, Richard managed to produce his first novel for
middle-grade juveniles in a period of thirty days. Over the next five
years he completed seven additional
novels in the action-adventure-mystery genres. Editorial rejection letters
never dampened this author's enthusiasm, however, because his novels
continue to make the rounds of publishing houses and he is currently
working on a junior detective "mystery" series.
Richard has his own philosophy about writing: "If my work
manages to catch the eye of an interested publisher, so much the better,
but with or without compensation for my efforts, the successful completion
of another novel is a reward in itself."
Although his novels are targeted for a younger audience, feedback
has convinced him that they are read and enjoyed by adults as well.
All feedback from the reader is both welcomed and encouraged.
Whether feedback is positive or negative, Richard feels it all helps him
to grow as an author.
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Jack Hart lives on a small farm in southern Ohio, and
is a professor of English at the University of Rio Grande (which, oddly enough,
is in Ohio). He is a playwright and poet, and the author of three books of
poetry. He edits Ship of Fools magazine, a small, but much-praised poetry
magazine. Mythosphere is the culmination of an interest in science fiction
fantasy that began in childhood with the discovery of a neighbor's
complete, hardbound collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars
series. In the autumn of 1999 he
married his co-author, Catherine Grosvenor in an oak grove in the back pasture
of their farm.
Catherine Hart is an artist and clothing
designer, and the author of a series of dark fairy tales. Her writing is
much influenced by her childhood discovery of the horror stories of H.P.
Lovecraft's Cthulu Mythos. She is also the computer geek of the family,
and aside from her share of the writing, is responsible for getting Mythosphere
on disc, and for designing our personal Mythosphere website.
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Bob Hartle is a hard working, tax paying, average
American. He enjoys a cool beer now and again, baseball, basketball, and
camping out in front of the television all day long on Superbowl Sunday.
He and his wife lived happy and productive lives until a career criminal
stole his identity. In a matter of months he had run up several
thousand dollars worth of debts in Bob Hartle's name. He opened bank
accounts, purchased a house, bought cars and motorcycles, furnished the
house with furniture and appliances, and bought it all on credit as Bob
Hartle. Then when the collectors began pounding on his door, he told them
that he wasn't the Bob Hartle they were looking for. Instead, he sent them
after the real Bob Hartle.
The story of what happened to Bob Hartle is a story of
what might happen to anyone. He has written a fascinating book about
his story, which he has also been featured on "48 Hours",
"America's Most Wanted", "Fox 10 National TV News",
"The Leeza Gibbon Show", "The Home and Family Show",
and the "Sally Jesse Raphael Show." He has also been the
subject of articles in such publications as Parade Magazine, Kiplinger
Magazine, the American Bar Association Magazine and the Delta Airlines
InFlight Magazine.
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 Emmett Hinkley has been a world
traveler since the tender age of 13. Throughout school, including
high school and college, he travelled to speaking engagements on weekends, while
absorbing all the education possible on a limited income.
He published his first book when he
was only sixteen years old and followed up that unusual feat with thirty
more books over the course of the next 40 years. His writing covers a wide
range of topics, including religious and historical subjects. His book, The
Giant Nations, for instance, reveals the secrets of how the pyramids
of Egypt and Latin America were created and how the inhabitants of Easter Island
created their giant stone sculptures.
In addition to being a
thought-provoking writer, Emmett is a talented musician who comes from a musical
family. He is a pianist who has recorded a number of albums, and ha used
his keyboard artistry extensively to play backup for several recording
artists. He, his wife, son, and daughter, starred in their own network
television production until each of their talents led them in separate
directions.
Today, Emmett still travels the
country, attending speaking engagements. For forty-seven years he has
studied the scriptures for clarity and truth, and engaged in hundreds of hours
of research for Ancient Manuscripts of the Life and Times of Jesus
Christ. The subject is one that will fascinate people of faith of all
denominations.
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The History Carper is dedicated to providing primary source
documents and histories related to the great turning points of human existence:
the foundations of the first civilizations, the rise and fall of the great
empires, the development of theologies, the revolutions, and the great
disasters. Most of this information can be accessed in a number of ways:
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For free at The History Carper's web site at http://historycarper.com.
The site features numerous primary source documents, and some of the most
comprehensive historical timelines available.
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On Special Collection CD-ROMs, which will be available
for purchase at The History Carper as they become available. Each disc will
contain hundreds of megabytes of information concerning one of the great
turning points of history. Volume One will focus on the American Revolution.
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In multiple electronic formats and in trade paperback
editions printed by Third Millennium Publishing.
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 Mr.
Kisella began his writing career in his late teens, and has had a string
of short stories published in small press magazines over the past ten
years. “The Chalice of Souls” is his first full-length fantasy
novel. A highly talented and prolific writer, Mr. Kisella is
currently developing stories for a small mid-western based comics company
while preparing an anthology of horror short stories and the second Mandar
novel.
A professional fitness instructor, Mr. Kisella was
born and raised in New Jersey. He currently resides in Hunterdon
County where he lives a very private life.
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Born in Philadelphia and raised in
Montreal, Toronto, and Indianapolis, Scott Langley currently lives in
Indianapolis with his wife and two children.
Scott has written several science
fiction short stories and a novel, Hannibal’s Dwarf.
The River Wolf is his first historical fiction novel.
Inspired by C.S. Forester, Bernard Cornwell, Richard Woodman, and
many others, Scott wanted to write a Napoleonic adventure, but felt the
genre to be crowded and overdone. It
was in reading a biography of Lord Thomas Cochrane and his exploits in
South America that gave Scott the idea for a continuation of the
Napoleonic Wars set in the New World.
Scott has always had an
interest in history and science. From
a literary standpoint, both science and historical fiction have a set of
facts and figures to use as the overall framework – one is based on
physics, the other dates. Literary
license within the framework is the heart of good genre fiction.
If you have any questions or
comments, Scott can be contacted at SLang1365@aol.com.
Criticism, constructive or otherwise, is appreciated.
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Joseph Lyles was born and raised in a small, historic town in South
Carolina. However, he began traveling as a teen and has crisscrossed North
America many times and via many forms of transport, including bicycle and
motorcycle.
Joseph began his college education at Furman University and
concluded it at Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western
Washington University, where he graduated with honors, earning a Bachelor of
Science in Human Ecology. He continued his education by obtaining a Juris
Doctorate degree from the Law School of the University of South Carolina.
Joseph traces his interest in science fiction to reading Dune and
watching Star Trek. Always an avid reader, Joseph first wrote professionally
in his law practice. He has also written a legal guide for non-lawyers
entitled, Avoiding Legal Landmines, which is available from the author or
at
www.rjbooks.com .
Joseph lives with his family in Greenville, South Carolina, where he
writes, practices law, and does public speaking. His hobbies and interests
include active outdoor sports, environmental organizations, and projects on
his “mini-farm”.
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 Peter
L. Manly was raised in the American Midwest in the tradition of Tom
Sawyer. He graduated from Syracuse University in Physics and served in the
United States Air Force as a research officer, followed by tours with NASA
and various aerospace contractors. He puts bread (and peanut butter) on
the table by writing nonfiction about astronomy, computers and aviation.
See the books Unusual Telescopes (ISBN 0 521 38200
9) and The 20-Cm Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (ISBN 0 521 43360 6)
published by Cambridge University Press. He also crafts woking replicas of
historical science and engineering instruments such as Galileo's original
telescope.
During the day he finds interesting airplanes to fly
in the clear skies of the Southwest. At night he can be found at the
telescope (and most nights in Arizona are clear). He also generates hard
core science fiction and a bit of fantasy. He is associated with seven
computers and a thirty-year-old VW Microbus. On weekends he restores
antique airplanes and bores great, smoking, vibrating holes in the sky
with WW II fighters. He has flown over 140 different types of aircraft
from ultralights to jumbo jets including supersonic types and has a
"9 G" pin in the F-16D Falcon. Manly enjoys feedback to petemanly@uswest.net
or petemanly@bix.com or petemanly@delphi.com.
You can also find links to all of his books, a complete publishing history
and bibliography and links to all of his recreational activities at http://www.users.uswest.net/~petemanly/.
Photo courtesy of United States Air Force Thunderbirds
Flight Demonstration Squadron.
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 Michael
Manning is a freelance writer who lives in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
He has studied psychology and creative writing and has worked at a number
of jobs while pursuing his writing career.
Since the early 1970’s, Mr.
Manning has had an avid interest in spiritual matters. He has read
extensively and attended numerous seminars and workshops on spiritual
topics, sometimes as a featured speaker.
Mr. Manning has authored three film scripts, a documentary video and
dozens of articles, stories, poems, and songs.
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 Rusty
Marshall enjoys photography, motorcycles, playing guitar, nature, writing,
and annoying his grand children.
He was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1947. He
still lives within twenty miles of Alexandria with his wife and high
school sweetheart, Cora. They have two grown children, and six
grandchildren.
Graduating from Thomas A. Edison High School in
Fairfax County Virginia in 1967, he was on the Dean's List for two years,
and the Principle's "I'm Watching You," list for four years.
Rusty has had many careers, including draftsman, fire
fighter, cross-country trucker, carpenter, bartender, photographer,
musician, and author. He started writing at the age of thirteen and
has made a serious pursuit of writing within only the last two years.
He will be retiring to a life long dream of full time writing at the end
of this year. He has had his literary efforts published in several
International magazines, including the November issue of "Biker"
magazine, and "Motorcycle Tour And Cruiser" magazine. He
writes motorcycle articles, Sci-Fi, poetry, short stories, romance novels,
and children's novels. He is currently working on a series of
children's mystical adventures entitled "The Adventures of the
Thirteenth Realm."
Rusty Marshall's online presence is www.rustymarshall.com
and he enjoys hearing from his readers.
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 Steve
Martindale, a marketing specialist and Beowulf scholar, was born in Tucson
in 1957. He’s
been a published writer since 1989, with works appearing in such
publications as Writers of the
Future Vol. V, Aboriginals, and ConNotations. This is his
first published novel.
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Cecil Milliner
Public Speaking/Short Stories
Cecil L. Milliner was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, a somewhat
sophisticated city of thirty thousand. He came into the world
on a hot and humid summer night on August 26, 1917, kicking and screaming,
letting everyone know he had arrived. The first few years were spent in
public and private schools learning the ABCs
and how to do his sums. Finally he graduated from the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles with bachelor degrees in history and biology.
Cecil’s military service began December 31,
1941, at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Arkansas. Basic training was at
Fort Frances E. Warren, Wyoming, followed by a number of other training sites
before he was transferred to the reserves to work in the mines in the Idaho
Coeur D’Alene mining district. He eventually went overseas with the United
States Seventh Army in Southern France and Germany, where he took part in the
search for Germany’s nuclear bomb research centers.
He has traveled widely in the United States by various means;
Hitch-hiking, bus, Pullman as well as freight cars, plane and driving. Cecil worked for the California Department of
Agriculture for twenty two years including two years with the EPA. He is now
retired and spends most of his time with his hobbies of Amateur Radio,
Computers, writing, speaking and with his church.
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Rob Minteer was born in Sewickley, PA in 1957, and moved with his family to
Catonsville, MD in 1967. Freedom beckoned in Daytona Beach, FL in 1973, and he
was on his own for a summer. In the meantime his family had moved to Whitehall,
MT, where he joined them at the end of the summer. Thus a pattern began that was
to continue for the next fifteen years: Wanderlust. He married the first time at
age nineteen and tried to settle down, but it just wasn't in him. He has three
children from that marriage, of whom he is very proud.
Jobs in a variety of trades and in many parts of the country have brought
the author into contact with hundreds of honest, hardworking people through the
years. Stories heard from many of those coworkers made deep and lasting
impressions, as did stories read about injustices throughout the world at many
different times and places. Recently the idea of the Freedom Bell Curve and the
Pyramid Scheme of Power helped to make sense of much that is going on in the
world. The author welcomes comments from readers, either confirming or denying
the validity of these ideas. Now, through the Internet, the author hopes to meet
even more people than he has met in all his travels, and incorporate many of
their experiences and observations into future books.
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 John
T. Moriarty has written essays for the Cleveland Plain Dealer Magazine and
short stories for various religious periodicals. He is listed in the
LIterary Art's section of Marquis Millennium Edition of Who's Who in
America and Who's Who in the World.
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 Bob
Nadel was born in Bronx, NY, the son of a Hungarian immigrant father who
was a master tool & die maker who helped give birth to the modern
automobile. Bob followed his father into the tool-and-die trade.
He educated himself by taking night courses as CCNY, NYU, Brown
University, and Rappahannak College in Virginia. Among his many
professional accomplishments, he made the first prototype zoom lens,
worked on early radar plumbing for the US Air Force, and
manufactured umbilical cord junction boxes for the National Aerodynamics
and Space Administration. He also patented a variety of high speed
metal component production and assembly methods.
Recently, he went into research and development.
His latest invention, intended to assist doctors during cataract surgery,
is an automatic lens furler and injector. It injects a sterile lens
into the eye through an incision so tiny that not one stitch is required
to close it. Bob comes by his inventiveness naturally. He had
the honor of exchanging letters with Albert Einstein shortly before his
death. The subject of the correspondence was an alternative to a
rocket propulsion system that uses gyroscopic precession. It would
be, in effect, a working flying saucer, and was sufficiently complicated
that Bob has yet to build a prototype. However, he is thinking
about it ...
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About
Nelani:
Nelani lives in Northern Wisconsin with her husband Barry and their
children, Joshua, Jasmine, Samuel, Heather and Autumn. Krammer is their
feisty Boston Terrier. The family enjoys the great outdoors and the
multitude of activities it affords. Among some of their favorite activities
are: Stargazing, Biking, Hiking, Swimming and Gardening. The members of
the family continue to contribute their artist talents to complement
Nelani’s writing.
Nelani is the 4th child of nine, the first girl. Her five brothers are
Kirk, Devan, Keith, Patrick and Marc. Her three sisters are Moana, Simone
and Karen. Their mother Diane encouraged her children to believe in their
gifts and furnished the tools necessary to go after their dreams.
Calastapeas’ Gathering is the 3rd in the Tales of Lamac Series, the 4th
of Nelani’s children’s books, Cow’s Milk being the 1st. She also writes for
the adult population in the Soaring Free Trilogy and Steps. Nelani has
expanded the ways you can enjoy her works by adding audio CDs and Video CD
storybooks of her children’s books and Steps poetry. With the help of her
woodworking husband, they turned many of the poems in Steps to framed Canvas
Prints. The poetry is printed superimposed on background pictures Nelani
has taken of the North Woods area.
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 After
graduating from Edmond High School in 1941, Marion G. Otto went into the
Navy for four years. After the Navy, he went to college
at Oklahoma A & M and the University of New Mexico, where he graduated
in 1949 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He began working
for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before
being transferred to Tripoli, Libya. One job led to another
and he worked for Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, before returning to Tripoli
with the Oasis Oil Company. His next job was with Bechtel
Corporation in San Francisco and Europe. He returned to Arabia,
where he retired in 1981, and began sailing the Caribbean for six
years. He then went to Guatemala, where he learned to paint and
write. While in Guatemala, he completed sixty-five oil
paintings and twenty-four novels. He returned to Los Angeles in
December, 1999, where he has access to a fine library and is closer to the
publishing market.
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George Phillies
Science Fiction / Political Philosophy
 George
Phillies is Professor of Physics and Associated Biochemistry Faculty at
the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (http://www.wpi.edu/~phillies), where
he spends his time teaching undergraduates and plumbing the unsolved
mysteries of complex fluid dynamics. In his spare time, he writes science
fiction, collects board war games ('largest collection in North America'),
and contributes to his community through the Libertarian Party (http://www.cmlc.org),
the Strategy Gaming Society (http://pages.about.com/strategygames), and
the American Civil Liberties Union.
Phillies spent his undergraduate and graduate days at
MIT (1964-1975), where he was Librarian of the MIT Science Fiction
Society. Before moving to WPI, he worked at the UCLA and University
of Michigan Chemistry Departments. Phillies now lives in Worcester
with his game collection.
"This Shining Sea" is his first published
science fiction novel. "This Shining Sea" asks 'what is
the price of power?' What does power avail you if you don't know where you
are, don't know who is friend or foe, don't know who are your real
opponents? 'Stand Up for Liberty!' is a book on political
*strategy*. It's not about *philosophy* --- 'what we should do if we
win elections'. It's not a book on *tactics* --- 'how to press the
flesh and win your election'. It's about *strategy* -- 'how to
change the Libertarian Party into a party that wins election after
election, year after year after year'.
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From the early 1970s to the mid-eighties, Mark Siegel
was an English Professor, mostly at Arizona State University and the
University of Wyoming. He published half-a-dozen books and a hundred
articles on literature, film, and popular culture. In the
mid-eighties, he helped elect and then impeach a governor. He has
been a lawyer in Phoenix, Arizona, since 1991. He lives with his
wife Carole and their offspring, Mandy and Max. He continues to
write on various topics. Rocky Point is Mark Siegel's personal
account of the infamous Willoughby Murder Case that rocked the Southwest
in 1991.
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Michael McCollum
Science Fiction / Writing / Science
 Michael
McCollum was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1946, and is a graduate of
Arizona State University, where he majored in aerospace propulsion and
minored in nuclear engineering. He is currently employed at Honeywell,
International, Tempe, Arizona, where he is a Chief Engineer in the
Pneumatic Controls Product Line. In his career, Mr. McCollum has worked on
the precursor to the Space Shuttle Main Engine, a nuclear valve to replace
the one that failed at Three Mile Island, several guided missiles, Space
Station Freedom, and virtually every aircraft in production today. He is
currently involved in an effort to create a joint venture company with a
major Russian aerospace engine manufacturer and has travelled extensively
to Russia in the last several years.
In addition to his engineering, Mr. McCollum is a
successful professional writer in the field of science fiction. He is the
author of a dozen pieces of short fiction and has appeared in magazines
such as Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Amazing, and Isaac Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine. His novels (all published by Ballantine, Del
Rey) include A Greater Infinity, Life
Probe, Procyon's Promise, Antares
Dawn, and Antares Passage. His
novel, Thunderstrike!, was optioned by
a Hollywood production company for a possible movie. His other books
include The Clouds of Saturn and The
Sails of Tau Ceti. His latest book, Gibraltar
Earth, was published for the first time anywhere at Sci Fi - Arizona,
Third Millennium Publishing's sister website. He is currently
working on Antares Victory, the book that will conclude the Antares
Trilogy. Several of these books have subsequently been translated
into Japanese and German.
Mr. McCollum is the CEO of Sci Fi - Arizona, Inc., one
of the first author-owned-and-operated virtual bookstores on the Internet
and is the founder of Third Millennium Publishing.
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Nunzio and Elizabeth
Addabbo