I must also thank Angela England, my copyeditor. She’s the reason I’m doing the italics correctly. I also want to thank my fellow writers over on Google+ for their encouragement and their fine-tuning of my cover, especially Nathan, Jefferson, and Jennifer.
I also want to thank my father, because in a way, this book is about him. No, he wasn’t a space captain, nor was he a privateer. He was not even one for boats, really. He was an electrical engineer who designed circuits to operate in the microwave part of the radio spectrum, a range most engineers liken to black magic. He did quite a few communication projects, from long distance towers to cell phones, and he did a number of defense projects as well, mostly ECM and other airborne defensive systems.
As technology advances, his work is being replaced piece by piece, but he did leave behind one enduring technological legacy. Neil Armstrong’s “one small step” came to us through circuits he designed. He died of cancer in 2005, and I miss him to this very day.
So how is this book about him? Quite simply, he was my father.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Thompson started writing fiction at age ten. Luckily for the world, all copies of that early Star Wars rip-off have been lost to time and Sith retaliation. Moving on from that six-page handwritten epic, he wrote short stories through the 1980’s and 1990’s, and sold a few to magazines that rarely lived past his story’s publication.
After three or four abandoned novels, he finally started finishing some and decided they should do more than collect dust and red scribbles. Because of the shakeup e-books have brought to publishing, he decided to pursue self-publishing for the time being. Thus Quantum Forge Press was born.
He lives near Austin with his wife and three children, drives old police cars, wears kilts when the weather permits, visits with friends as much as possible, and is generally considered to be the weirdo next door. Fortunately, the neighbors don’t know how weird he really is.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictionally. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, locations, or events is entirely coincidental.
SHIPS OF MY FATHERS
Copyright (c) 2013 by Dan Thompson
Cover art by Dan Thompson
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