Doug BeasonDoug Beason (Col, USAF, ret.) is the author of fourteen books-eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson-as well as two non-fiction books. Assemblers of Infinity was a Nebula Award finalist. Doug's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and nthologies, and he has written for publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Analog, Amazing Stories, Physical Review Letters, and Physics of Fluids, to Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society. Doug and Kevin J. Anderson's coauthored novel, The Trinity Paradox, holds the distinction of being the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award for promoting the understanding of physics in society, and was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.Doug recently served as Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command and is Chairman of the Auburn University Wireless Engineering Board of Directors. He is currently the Senior Vice President for Special Programs at Universities Space Research Association, a non-profit entity of 105 PhD granting institutions established jointly by NASA and the National Academy of Science to conduct research in space science Read More Read Less