Grant Callin

Grant David Callin (born 1941^[1]) is part of the hard science fiction stream of authors.^[2] 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 8-inch (200 mm) telescope and does some astrophotography.^[2]

As of 1986, he worked for Boeing Aerospace Company as a research analyst, involved with the work on the NASA Space Station Program.^[2] 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)

Short 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

1. ↑ Grant Callin
2. 1 2 3 "About the Author" within A Lion on Tharthee

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

External links

• Grant Callin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database