For years I have been plagued by strange stories and essays of various lengths floating around inside my garbled melon. Decided it was finally time to get some of this stuff out and published. I take an unusual view of life and have yet to run into another individual who sees things in the wacky way that I do. Equal parts respect for the scientific method and critical objectivity while also possessing reverence for that aspect of mentality that makes faith, hope and love possible. The grand questions, … What are we all doing here? What is the purpose of life? Where are we all going? are centrally important to me and show up as reoccurring themes in my work.
Some of the writers I return to most often in my mind are Dan Simmons, Stephen King, James Joyce, Yoko Ogawa and Isaac Asimov. I am also fond of Ursula K. Le Guin, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Homer, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Conan Doyle, Carl Sagan, Harper Lee, Frank Herbert, Aeschylus, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Andrei Sakharov, Jack London, Margaret Atwood, Peter Watts, Alexandre Dumas, Plato, Bertrand Russell, and Marcus Aurelius.
While they often write in equations instead of flowing prose, I am also an advocate of John von Neumann, Richard Feynman, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann, Wolfgang Pauli, Linus Pauling, Leonhard Euler, George Stokes, Steven Weinberg, William Rowan Hamilton, Lev Landau, Georg Cantor, and David Hilbert.
All of my short stories and selected essays (at least the ones I manage to get dusted off and posted) will be free for any interested reader to download, but my books will be sold through the standard channels simply to recoup for the hundreds to thousands of hours it takes to complete one. I will be putting up a few chapters from each book that I am working on for free so that interested readers can take a gander. If nothing else, I hope my writing inspires good conversation and feel free to hit me up on the Contact Page to express your thoughts.