Doug Beason

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James Douglas Beason (born December 3, 1953 ) is an American science fiction writer, physicist and former officer in the US Air Force . He wrote several of his short stories and most of his novels in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson .

Life

Beason studied at the United States Air Force Academy , where he earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1977 . Further degrees were a Masters in Physics followed by a PhD from the University of New Mexico and a Masters in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University . He then served as an officer in the US Air Force for 24 years, during which time he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , taught at the US Air Force Academy, and was a defense and space advisor to various US government bodies .

Beason published his first short story in 1984 with Beguiled . The two novels Return to Honor (1989) and Assault on Alpha Base (1990) are techno thrillers . The following novels, co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson, Lifeline (1990), The Trinity Paradox (1991) and Assemblers of Infinity (1993) are closer to SF. The novels in the Craig Kreident series are techno thrillers on the fringes of SF.

Assemblers of Infinity was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1994. The Trinity Paradox was nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award . He received the National Defense University President's Strategic Vision Award for his book DOD Science and Technology: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era .

Beason most recently served as Associate Laboratory Director in the Threat Reduction department at Los Alamos National Laboratorys . In 2008 he retired. Since then he has been a full-time author. He lives in Colorado .

bibliography

Craig Kreident (series of novels with Kevin J. Anderson )
  • Virtual Destruction (1996)
  • Fallout (1997)
  • Lethal Exposure (1998)
Novels
  • Return to Honor (1989)
  • Assault on Alpha Base (1990)
  • Lifeline (1990, with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • The Trinity Paradox (1991, with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Assemblers of Infinity (1993, with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Ill Wind (1995, with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Ignition (1996, with Kevin J. Anderson)
    • English: Ignition: Kennedy Space Center in Danger. Translated by Wolfgang Thon. vgs, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2500-0 . Also as: Ignition - fireball. Goldmann TB # 43618, 1998, ISBN 3-442-43618-4 .
  • Return to Honor (2014)
Collections
  • Magnetic Reflections (2011; with Kevin J. Anderson)
Short stories

1984:

  • Beguiled (in: Space and Time, # 67, Winter 1984 )

1986:

  • Command Decision (in: Alpha Adventures, May 1986 )
  • Luck of the Draw (in: 2 AM, Fall 1986 )

1987:

  • Lifeguard (in: Jim Baen (Ed.): New Destinies, Volume I / Spring 1987 )
  • The Man I'll Never Be (in: Amazing Stories, May 1987 )
  • Final Exam (in: 2 AM, winter 1987 )

1988:

  • Tech Rep (in: Alpha Adventures, July 1988 )
  • The Third Option (in: Space & Time # 74, Summer 1988 )
  • If I Fell, Would I Fall? (in: Amazing Stories, September 1988 ; with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror (1988, in: Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy (Eds.): Full Spectrum ; with Kevin J. Anderson)

1989:

  • A Reasonable Doubt (in: Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Issue 4: Summer 1989 )
  • The Long Way Home (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1989 )

1990:

  • Rescue at L-5 (1990, in: Arthur C. Clarke and David Brin (Eds.): Project Solar Sail ; with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Ben Franklin's Laser (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Mid-December 1990 )

1992:

  • Prisons (in: Amazing Stories, April 1992 ; with Kevin J. Anderson)
  • Shepherd (in: Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, September-October 1992 )

1993:

  • Windance (in: Amazing Stories, January 1993 )
  • To Bring Down the Steel (in: Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1993 )

1995:

  • Homecoming (1995, in: Jennifer Hershey, Tom Dupree and Janna Silverstein (Eds.): Full Spectrum 5 )
  • When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale (1995, in: Kevin J. Anderson (Ed.): Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina )
    • English: When the Desert Wind Turns: The Story of the Stormtrooper. In: Kevin J. Anderson (ed.): Storm over Tatooine. Goldmann, ISBN 978-3-442-43599-9 .
  • Defense Conversion (1995, in: Charles Sheffield (Ed.): How to Save the World )
1996
  • Determinism and the Martian War, with Relativistic Corrections (Series War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches , 1996, in: Kevin J. Anderson (Ed.): War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches )

2014:

  • Thunderwell (2014, in: Ben Bova and Eric Choi (Eds.): Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Science Fiction )
Non-fiction
  • DOD Science and Technology: Strategy for the Post-Cold War Era (1997)
  • The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought (2005)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b About Doug on Beason's website, accessed May 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Beason, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beason, James Douglas (full name); Beason, Douglas (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction author, physicist, and officer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1953