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Born: Washington, DC, USA

Present address: Germantown, MD, USA

Status: Married (Degree: Happily)

Interests: Science, science fiction, technology, technological history, computer development, the environment, conservation, energy efficiency, sustainable development, animation/anime, sequential art, modern mythology

Talents: Writer, illustrator, designer, futurist, inventor, traditional draftsman, motorcyclist, web designer/developer, public speaker

Hobbies: Reading, tinkering, music burning, computer art, personal web sites

Likes: Jazz, pets, nature, bleeding-edge technology, beach vacations, personalized ringtones

Dislikes: Rap, rudeness, wasting time, inaccurate maps, bad drivers, good music turned into cheap electronic ringtones

Favorite quotes:

• "Mitaku Oyasin" (We are all related) — Lakota greeting
• "We are all Starstuff." — Carl Sagan
• "Life is the Universe, given consciousness." — Delenn, Babylon 5
• "The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth." — Chief Seattle
• "Any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke
• "I can't die yet... I haven't seen The Jolson Story" — Robert "Jetboy" Tomlin, Wild Cards
• "Is that a rabbit in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" — Dolores, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Favorite music: Jazz — Blues, Ragtime, Dixieland, Big Band, Bebop, Cool, Standards, Fusion, Classicism

Favorite Books: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Andromeda Strain, Beggars In Spain trilogy, Brave New World, Caves of Steel, Childhood's End, the Doc Savage series, Ecotopia, Fahrenheit 451, I Robot, Jurassic Park, Man Plus, The Martian Chronicles, Metropolis, Snow Crash, Solaris, the Wild Cards series

Favorite movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Akira, Batman Begins, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, Citizen Kane, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Cowboys, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost In The Shell, I Robot, The Incredibles, The Matrix, Men In Black, Metropolis, Minority Report, Planet of the Apes, The Rocketeer, Serenity, Silent Running, Solaris, Soylent Green, Star Wars (IV, V, VI), Vanilla Sky, War of the Worlds (2005), West Side Story, Young Frankenstein

Favorite TV shows: The Avengers, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (2000), The Daily Show, Eureka, Firefly, Heroes, Lost, Mission: Impossible, Moonlighting (seasons 1 and 2), The Prisoner, Remington Steele (season 1), Scrubs, Star Trek (any series except Enterprise), UFO

On E-books:

E-books represent the natural progression of literature and technology. Electronic files allow people to take entire libraries of books with them at any time, to read whenever they please. Electronic files also have the advantages of allowing readers to reformat the literature to suit them, whether it be in unique formats, preferred fonts and text sizes, or even other languages. In addition, e-books are environmentally sound, as they do not require the production of paper, do not require physical storage space, do not need physical shipping, and do not create waste when thrown away.

Just as computers, the Internet, and other communications technologies are transforming life as we know it, I foresee e-books taking literature in new and (probably) unexpected directions in the 21st century. Publishers must accept that print has largely reached its practical limits, and they must embrace electronic technologies in order for the publishing industry to continue to develop. Instead of waiting for traditional publishers, I have developed the Right Brane ePublishing model in order to demonstrate a workable electronic publishing system.

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