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I was born a Texan in Cowtown USA (Fort Worth), into an Army Air Force family, if that gives you a hint as to my vintage. Grew up in a bunch of places, north to south, east to west, and got to know mid-century America very well. While not devouring each new Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Leinster, you name 'em!, as they appeared, I wrote sf stories even in grade school, publishing a few in Amazing Stories and Fantastic Stories when they belonged to Ziff-Davis in the very early '60s, and am currently an active SFWA member. But a lot of water has slid under the bridge meantime. I've been a TV cameraman, continuity writer, served seventeen years in the Army as a Medical Service Corps officer, assistant director of the SAC Planetarium in San Antonio, an expedition radioman and medic in the Caribbean while a marine biologist and diving instructor hq'd in St. Thomas USVI; was a research consultant for the US Air Force toxic waste disposal program; later worked a decade as a research scientist in biomaterials, a digital circuit designer, a senior research associate in cancer and AIDS/molecular genetics at the U. of Texas Health Science Center (SA), was MIS then exec vp of an interstate management company... Doing all that whilst avoiding my true loves, writing sf and drawing/ painting sf art, until I hooked up for a spell in the previous millennium with Chad Cottle, Jody Speight and Steve Johnson at Titanzine.
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in there, four daughters appeared and set forth on their own ventures. These days, I live in the foothills of the Cascades in Washington with wife Cindy and last chick at home, Meghan. The former tolerates my sf&f enthusiasm with cheerfully benign acceptance, and Meg... well, from the looks of things, she's contracted the same awful disease afflicting me most of my life: a chronic, incurable fascination with the sublime and the fantastic. Fact is, this entire branch of the Egan clan suffers from that, to one degree or another. Oldest daughter, Tracy, holds a degree in Russian Studies, and can out-Trek me any day. Her collection of Anne McCaffrey was the virus that brought Meg the contagion. Lari is a graduate of the University of Texas with a BA in biology, and will likely be the one inheriting the most "s" from the "sf" in her life. Aspen is an accomplished equestrian of the first water, a vet assistant, working through college headed for veterinary medicine. Her room is held down against Texas tornados by the weight of accumulated reading material. (All those years, I tried to keep my old sf paperbacks hidden under stacks of unfinished manuscripts, but it didn't do any good!)
And now, we've begun The Spiral Sea adventure. Given
the breadth of talent and enthusiasm represented by the writers
and artists I am now lucky enough to be rubbing cyber elbows
with, I'm looking forward to this being one of the more fascinating
galactic epochs.
In the best sense possible, may we live in interesting times.
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