I am an experienced technical writer and magazine columnist (4 years), but I haven't written any fiction since I was a college freshman in 1952. I am an avid sci-fi and fantasy fan; I started reading the pulps in 1946. I have an MS degree in Chemistry and authored several patents related to packaging and plastics. I have been working with computers since 1963 and built my first PC in 1977 using a Motorola 6800 CPU and 1 kilobyte of RAM.