Grant Callin

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name = Grant David Callin
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pseudonym = Flash Richardson Grant D. Callin Grant Callin
birthdate = 1941
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occupation = Research analyst
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genre = Hard science fiction
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Grant David Callin (born 1941 [ [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/grant-callin/ Grant Callin ] ] ) is part of the hard science fiction stream of authors."About the Author" within "A Lion on Tharthee"] He sometimes goes by the pseudonym Flash Richardson.

Callin graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1963, and retired from the service in 1984. He holds a bachelor's degree in basic sciences, and advanced degrees in space physics, physiology and biophysics. An amateur astronomer, he built his own convert|8|in|mm|sing=on telescope and does some astrophotography.

As of 1986, he worked for Boeing Aerospace Company as a research analyst, involved with the work on the NASA Space Station Program. He is currently in retirement in Sammamish, WA.

Bibliography

Novels

* "Saturnalia" (1986) (ISBN 0-671-65546-9)
* "A Lion on Tharthee" (1987) (ISBN 0-671-65357-1)

hort fiction

* "The Turtle and O'Hare" (1982)
* "Deborah's Children" (1983)
* "Saturn Alia" (1984) - the short story upon which the novel was based.
* "The Carhart Shale" (1993)

References

see also Jay Kay Klein's "Biolog" in "Analog", July 1984.

External links

* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Grant%20Callin Grant Callin] on ISFDB