Carl Frederick

Carl Frederick is a theoretical physicist, at least theoretically. After a post-doc at NASA and a stint at Cornell University, he left theoretical astrophysics and his first love, quantum relativity theory (a strange first love, perhaps) in favor of hi-tech industry. He invented the first commercial digital modem, after which Venture Capital moved him and his company to Boson. Soon, though, tired of being a Lance Corporal of industry, he moved back home and is now Chief Scientist of a small company doing AI software.

While keeping his hand in theoretical physics, he decided he.d like to write a more overt form of Science Fiction and, to that end, enrolled in the Odyssey Writers Workshop. He now has a respectable corpus of short stories and has put an interactive novel on the Web. It is interactive in that you can click to change the point of view and to expose sub-plots.

He has two more-or-less grown children, shares his house with a pet robot and time-shares a dog at the office. For recreation, he fences epee and plays the bagpipes. Recently he created software to convert the fruit-fly genome to music.

His latest credits include:

"The Art of Creation" (Writers of the Future, Vol. XVIII, 2002)
"A Boy and his Bicycle" (Writers of the Future, Vol. XIX, 2003)
"The Messiah" (Phobos, 2002)
"Great Theme Prisons of the World" (Phobos, 2002)
"The Beast of all Possible Worlds" (Phobos, 2003)
"The Spacemice Incident" (Analog, July/August, 2003)