Robert A. Metzger
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Robert A. Metzger (born 1956) is an electrical engineer and science fiction author. He was a Nebula Award finalist in the novel category in 2002 for his second novel, Picoverse.
Metzger began writing science fiction stories as a child, but it was not until 1987 that he sold his first sci-fi short story. He published his first novel, Quad World, in 1991. It was not until 2002 that he published Picoverse; he published his third and most recent novel, Cusp, in 2005.
Metzger's works are widely considered hard sci-fi. Greg Bear called him "one of our most ambitious writers of high-tech, hard physics science fiction."
Metzger holds a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA. He is co-founder of the technical journal Compound Semiconductor, and has authored over a hundred professional research papers. He has also written several articles on science for a popular audience for Wired magazine, and has published speculative studies involving climate engineering and space propulsion, co-authored with fellow scientist/sci-fi novelists Gregory Benford and Geoffrey Landis, respectively. Metzger is also active with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
[edit] Works
- Cusp (Science Fiction). Published by Ace, 2005. ISBN 0-441-01241-8.
- Picoverse (Science Fiction). Published by Ace, 2002. ISBN 0-441-00899-2.
- Quad World (Science Fiction). Published by New American Library, 1991. ISBN 0-451-45057-4.
