Author:Edward Mckeown

Edward McKeown

I have enjoyed a life-long love affair with science fiction. I seek to write believable people in extraordinary situations, balancing romance, humor, adventure and reasonable extrapolations of science in stories that I believe people will want to return to again and again. Whether its in the short stories of my "Lair of the Lesbian Love Goddess series" or in the the novel "Was Once A Hero" an updating of the classic "Planet" tale, in which a crew of unlikely companions find themselves facing unknown dangers while exploring an alien world, my intent is to give the reader the sort of page turning, involving adventure that Andre Norton wrote and leaven it with the emotional complexity and ambiguity that CJ Cherryh brings to the field.

While the experiences of the SF universe are out of reach of those unable to pay for a Russian rocket ride, I use experiences from my background to try for an underlying verity in my characters. I've parachuted, flown in gliders, hang gliders and strapped to the floor of military helicopters. I've been rated as an expert shot and carry a black belt in the martial arts. I've been paralyzed by fear, exhilarated by love and walked into fights, both literal and metaphorical, that I knew I could not win.

I have the great good fortune to be married to the talented artist Schelly Keefer.

http://www.sfwa.org/members/mckeown/

For novel length work I am represented by the Swetky Literary Agency. Magazine length material I handle directly. The Swetky Agency has the following novel series:


 * Was Once A Hero
 * Fearful Symmetry
 * Points Of Departure