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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 in high 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 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), MIS and 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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Somewhere
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 at the end of her undergrad years, concentrating
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.
I'm glad to be here.
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