A Writer's Biography, Volume I, Part 4: Falling in and Out of Love With Technothrillers

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Normally I always include some sort of image on these stories, even if it's one of the those boring landscape images of eastern Iowa or those shots of my writing desk. :)

Oftentimes, if I'm talking about a particular author I like, I'll usually take a photo of the book cover of an author I've read to illustrate a post. I tend to want to avoid copyright issues - although I think I'm covered by fair use rules. Today, however, I wasn't able to do that. There's a story behind that, and part of this section of the writing biography.

As a kid, I was obsessed over reading about the military and about military equipment. When my family and I had a chance to travel to Washington DC, the one place I had to visit was the National Air and Space Museum. It absolutely dovetailed with my existing interests in science fiction and space travel (the sci-fi obsession I've touched on before, although I'll probably go into more detail in a later post). Anyway, all of these i…