Assault on Alpha Base (21 page)

About the Author

Colonel Doug Beason, USAF (ret), is the author of 14 books, eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including
Ignition
(bought by Universal studios), Nebula nominee
Assemblers of Infinity
, and
Ill Wind
(optioned by Fox Studios). His solo novels are
Return to Honor, Assault on Alpha Base,
and
Strike Eagle
. His latest nonfiction book is
The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Wars Will Be Fought
. Colonel Beason’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies as diverse as
Analog
and
Amazing Stories
, to
Physical Review Letters
and
The Wall Street Journal
. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and Ph.D. physicist, Doug has worked on the White House staff for the President’s Science Advisor, was the Associate Laboratory Director at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for reducing the global threat of weapons of mass destruction, and was recently Chief Scientist for Air Force Space Command. On active duty for 24 years, Colonel Beason’s last assignment was as the Commander of the Phillips Research Site, where he was responsible for the facilities and personnel conducting research on directed-energy weapons and space vehicles in three theaters world-wide. He is currently Senior Vice President for Special Programs at Universities Space Research Association and is at work on several novels. DougBeason.com