Terrence Zavecz

Construction laborer, carpenter, toolmaker, photographer, historian, physicist, metallurgist, materials engineer, semiconductor scientist, researcher, marketing manager, executive, CEO, entrepreneur, world traveler and most of all a father ... and I've loved every minute of it!\n\nTerrence E. Zavecz\nBS Engr. Phys, MS Metallurgy, MS Materials.\n\nI am fascinated with people, cultures, history, military history and science. My mother introduced me to literature and science fiction. Because of this early love I eventually received my degrees from great universities and was lucky enough to work with the people of Bell Labs for thirteen years. These people, part of the crew that created Telstar, our first communications satellite, and Univac, an early computer, taught me real science and something else. The brought a level art and beauty to their work for every one of them was a skilled artisan as well as a researcher. After that I worked in science, marketing and business worldwide, met wonderful people and saw beauty as well as some things and people that I never would have believed could exist. (Great seeds for strange tales.)\n\nForty-two years of this life and I decided to slow down so I scaled back my company and relaxed. Three days later my wife told me she had enough and said, “Do something besides working around the house. Write a novel, you always loved science fiction.”\n.. In Depth ...\nI thought, why not? I like to write. I’d written papers, technical articles, books as well as articles for science magazines. Heck, I’d even written fiction -- after all any business proposal or DARPA grant must lead with a good story. \n\nMy favorite authors are Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Robert Silverberg, Asimov -- whom I met and had supper with one time -- and a few of ‘modern’ authors such as David Drake. I wanted to convey a positive, upbeat story line that brings out my optimistic view for the future of humanity and the magic of science rather than blaming them for the problems of the world.