Science Fiction Author and Publisher
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Ben W. Gardner - SF Author
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Have you ever tried to write an "About Me"?
I'm sitting here looking at a blank screen, stumped, and I'm supposed to
be an author. It's like the stuff they make you put down on
these computer dating services.
Well, I guess that's one thing about
me. I write books and ebooks. I am a published science
fiction author with three novels currently out in Europe and recently
released in the U.S. with another right
behind any day now.
I write mainly high tech Science
Fiction and all three novels use the same characters (half
American, half Russian) on different adventures. My writer friends call that a "trilogy",
but since I haven't decided whether to stop just yet, I'll refrain from
using that term. My current project is a cookbook especially for guys
because, like the hero in my books, I'm also a gourmet chef (Mary Sue
anyone?). My wife has already published a Danish cookbook, so I can't be outdone.
At various times in my life I've been a diver in the U.S.
Navy, a disk jockey, an electrical engineer. I've taught physics at
university, as well as computer engineering and design, computer
programming and database administration.
My current day job is as a
computer systems administrator, but I still have plenty of time to write
(other than technical manuals). I'm in the process of starting up an
e-publishing company that will specialize in "unknown"
authors.
What it boils down to is that I really haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up.
The sad thing is, I have never had a hobby that I haven't made money at...that takes a lot of the fun out of the word "hobby".
In high school I was interested in photography (became the school yearbook photographer, which got me out of a LOT of classes). Pretty soon I got good at it and began selling various pictures I had taken and doing portraits...there went the "hobby".
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Just In Time
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In The
Beginning
Since I lived just a few hundred feet from the ocean (San
Diego, California), I figured that SCUBA diving would be neat...well, as a
diver, Uncle Sam sent me on my senior trip to Vietnam. No fun
whatsoever.
In college I was introduced to my first computer -- about the
size of the house I'm living in and less than 1/1000th the power and speed
of what I'm sitting in front of at the moment (but it had 8K of
memory!). When I got tired of talking to myself for a living as a
disk jockey, I took my hobby in computers and made a living for the next
20 years.
Once I saw that kids getting out of fifth grade were as good as I am with computers, I turned to telling my woes to a word processor...what do you know? People actually give me money now to do that!
Science Fiction Writing
I guess my lifelong fascination with science and science fiction, space travel, Nicola Tesla, artificial intelligence (which I also made money at programming), the Russian people, and time travel made becoming a novelist inevitable.
Most of my friends are over-aged hippies like
myself. We get together and reminisce about protest marches, bad
wars, corrupt politics...heck, we can still do
that!
I've also got a mixed bag of kids. One's a cop (don't ask me how a hippie's kid turned cop), another married a Baptist preacher (REALLY don't ask how that happened), another is a mortgage underwriter, yet another is regional manager for a national defense contractor, and another is a semi-professional photographer -- talk about the establishment! Here I sit playing computer games and writing science fiction -- great example!
In the
Beginning opens in the very near future with a hero who has
developed a way to generate and control gravity using a combination of
existing technologies. He manages to threaten and cajole the governments
of both the United States and the Russian Federation into backing him and
providing a crew of international scientists to accompany him and Vesna,
his AI computer, on the first civilian expedition to Mars.
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Keywords: Science Fiction, Artificial
Intelligence, Mars, String Theory, Tesla
In
The
Beginning is available as: 
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Ebooks and
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Just In Time
Two years after returning from Mars, Dr. Belisar and a group of graduate
students uncover several of Mike's "one-of-a-kind" personal effects buried
three meters below the surface of Mesa Verde,
Colorado.
When Dr. Medvedev discovers that a 2000-year-old mummy they find at the
site has a surgical pin implanted in its leg, the crew suspects that they
had traveled through time and had also been
there.
So begins a saga of Vesna and her crew as they discover the lives and
times of the ancient Anasazi, forefathers of the modern Hopi, Zuni, and
Navajo peoples in the desert Southwest.
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(PDF)
Keywords: Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Time
Travel, Anasazi, Russian
Just In Time is available as:
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