Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | Carl Frederick

Carl Frederick is a theoretical physicist, at least theoretically. After a post-doc at NASA and a stint at Cornell University, he left theoretical astrophysics and his first love, quantum relativity theory (a strange first love, perhaps) in favor of hi-tech industry.

He invented the first commercial digital modem, and Venture Capital moved him and his company to Boston. Soon though, tired of being a Lance-corporal of industry, he moved back home and is now Chief Scientist of a small company doing AI software.

While keeping his hand in theoretical physics, he decided he'd like to write a more overt form of Science Fiction and, to that end, enrolled in the Odyssey Writers Workshop. He now has a respectable corpus of published short-stories, and has put an interactive novel on the Web. It is interactive in that you can click to change the point of view and to expose sub-plots (available at WWW.darkzoo.net, should you care to visit. There, you can also hear a nifty translation of the fruitfly genome to music).

He has two more-or-less grown children and shares his house with a pet robot. For recreation, he fences epee, learns languages, and plays the bagpipes. He lives in rural, Ithaca, New York. And rural is good if you play the bagpipes. Although shopping around a novel faster than a speeding glacier, he is predominately a short story writer. His work often appears in Analog.

Concentration of Dogs Full Story From: "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." - Edward Hoagland

Weredragons of Mars Full Story From: In a small, out of the way cabin of the generational ship Trans Global Hope, three students sat around a table planning mayhem.