Robert A. Metzger

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Robert Alan Metzger (born May 21, 1956 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American engineer and science fiction writer.

Life

Metzger studied electrical engineering at UCLA , where he also received his doctorate. He is a specialist in semiconductors , especially in the crystal growing processes used here . He worked for Hughes Research Laboratories and the Georgia Institute of Technology . Metzger is a co-founder of Compound Semiconductor magazine and author of numerous scientific articles. From 2009 he worked at Kyma Technologies in Raleigh , North Carolina , from 2012 as Technical Director (CTO). He retired there at the beginning of 2015. In addition to his professional work, he wrote popular science articles for Wired magazine and wrote speculative studies on space propulsion and geoengineering with science fiction authors Gregory Benford and Geoffrey A. Landis .

He is best known as an author of hard science fiction . His first SF story, An Unfiltered Man , appeared in 1987 in Aboriginal Science Fiction magazine , where he subsequently published almost all of his short stories and, from 1989 to 2003, author of the column What If? was. In 1991, Metzger's first novel Quad World appeared , in which the protagonist finds himself transported to a parallel world populated by the survivors of a devastating war and avatars from earthly history and legends such as Joan of Arc and Robin Hood . In his second novel Picoverse (2002), which was nominated for the Nebula Award , a fusion experiment with Sonomak , an innovative particle accelerator , accidentally creates a tiny universe, a time- accelerated copy of our universe with copies of the protagonists, who in alternative histories of their own Follow the agenda. In addition, there are agents coming from a supreme world - in which our universe is only a construct - who intervene in what is happening.

Metzger is an active member of SFWA and wrote the State of the Art column for its SFWA Bulletin from 1999 to 2008 .

bibliography

Novels
  • Quad World (1991)
  • Picoverse (2002)
  • CUSP (2005)
Short stories
  • To Unfiltered Man (1987)
  • True Magic (1987)
  • Instrument of Allah (1988)
  • Eve and the Beast (1988)
  • A Third Chance (1988)
  • Unfit to Print (1988)
  • In the Shadow of Bones (1989)
  • A Symbiotic Kind of Guy (1989)
  • Burn So Bright (1989)
  • The Twisted Brat (1989)
  • Self Similar (1990)
  • Eyes of Chaos (1990)
  • The Cubist and the Madman (1991)
  • Behind (1992)
  • Earl's Snack Utopia (1993)
  • Planet of the Dolphins (1994)
  • A Tin Tear (1994)
  • Slab Town (1996)
  • The Stars My Incarnation (2000)
  • Bandwidth to Burn (2002)
  • Polyhedrons (2005)
  • Perchance to Dream (2005)
  • Slip (2006)
  • Geometry (2006)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kyma Chief Technology Officer Retires , Kyma Technologies press release dated April 24, 2015, accessed March 14, 2019.
  2. ^ Robert A. Metzger , Articles in Wired , accessed on March 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Review of Picoverse on SF Reviews.net, accessed March 14, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Metzger, Robert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzger, Robert Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California