John F. Carr lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania with his wife Victoria, an editor and columnist; they have two children, Jeremy and Nicole, and one cat, Little Girl. Carr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but moved to San Diego at age 4, when his father went to work for the Naval Electronics Lab in Point Loma, San Diego. His father, an aero-space engineer, later worked for Convair and General Dynamics, helping to develop the Atlas and Atlas/Centaur missiles. John’s grandfather, who received a degree in Electricity from Columbia University in 1908, was one of the Wizards of Menlo Park who worked under Thomas Edison. His tall tales of scientific wonders helped light the flame of storytelling in young John’s mind.He started writing his first novel while studying history at San Diego State University. His first published work was The Ophidian Conspiracy in 1975. He has since published over twenty novels and edited some thirty anthologies and short story collections.Carr edited the Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of American from 1976 to 1979, and later severed as both SFWA Treasurer and Vice-President. He worked as co-editor with Jerry Pournelle from 1975 to 1996 in Studio City, California. Together they published over thirty anthologies and story collections, including the Baen Books paperback magazine, Far Frontiers. In the mid-eighties he worked as an independent acquisition editor for both Tor Books and Baen Books. He was the Science Fiction editor of Popular Computing.Carr is recognized as an authority on H. Beam Piper (a Pennsylvania SF writer) and his works. He edited four Piper short story collections for Ace Books and wrote H. Beam Piper: A Biography for McFarland & Co. and most recently Typewriter Killer, which focuses on Piper’s writing and his Terro-Human Future History. He has written seven sequels to H. Beam Piper’s Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, the most recent and final being Down Styphon!, as well as two far-future sequels to Piper’s Space Viking. And is currently working on “Return to Space Viking,” the direct sequel to Space Viking, which he plotted out with Jerry Pournelle back in the late Seventies.Read more about this authorRead less about this author