I have been a fan of Science Fiction since I was a pre-teen. I started with the youth fiction of Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Once I graduated to reading Bradbury, Science Fiction became part of who I was. Over the years, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alfred Bester, Harlan Ellison, and a myriad other writers sparked my imagination. I worked for 30 years in the computer industry as a programmer and in quality assurance. Most of that time was spent in the Paleolithic ages of data processing. This was when computers were million-dollar behemoths with slow processing speeds and a terabyte of data required the floor of an office building to store it. I saw the advent of display terminals, performance monitoring, and computer generated imaging. It was only when I retired from working in the computer industry that I returned to writing.