Doug Beason (born 1953) is an American scientist and
science fiction
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author.
He graduated from the
United States Air Force Academy
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in 1977 with a dual major in physics and math. He started his first novel while at the Academy after returning there as an officer in the 1980s to teach physics. He is a retired
Air Force
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Colonel
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with a
PhD in
physics
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. He is also a Fellow of the
American Physical Society
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and has published two non-fiction books. His book "Science and Technology Policy for the post-Cold War: A Case for Long-Term Research", was awarded the
National Defense University
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President's Strategic Vision award. He also worked on a few books, (e.g. Lifeline, The Trinity Paradox, and Nanospace) with
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...
. In 2008, he retired from his position as Associate Laboratory Director for Threat Reduction at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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.
He currently writes full-time, lectures, and consults.
Bibliography
Novels
*''Return to Honor'' (1989)
*''Assault on Alpha Base'' (1990)
*''Strike Eagle'' (1991)
*''Wild Blue U'' (2005)
*''Return to Honor'' (2014)
*''The Cadet'' (2015)
*''The Officer'' (2016)
*''Space Station Down'' (2020), Co-Authored with Ben Bova
Co-authored with
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin James Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for ''Star Wars'', ''StarCraft'', ''Titan A.E.'' and ''The X-Files literature#Novels, The X-Files'', and with Brian Herbert is the ...
*''Lifeline'' (1990)
*''
The Trinity Paradox'' (1991)
*''
Assemblers of Infinity
''Assemblers of Infinity'' is a science-fiction novel by American writers Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason. It first appeared in print in serialized form in the American magazine ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' from September to December 19 ...
'' (1993)
*''Ill Wind'' (1995)
*''Ignition'' (1997)
*''Kill Zone'' (2019)
Craig Kreident Series:
*''Virtual Destruction'' (1996)
*''Fallout'' (1997)
*''Lethal Exposure'' (1998)
Short fiction
Non-fiction
*''Science and Technology Policy for the post-Cold War: A Case for Long-Term Research''
*''The E-Bomb: How America's new directed energy weapons will change the way future wars will be fought'' (2005)
References
External links
*http://www.dougbeason.com
*http://www.wordfire.com/
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American science fiction writers
Living people
United States Air Force Academy alumni
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
1953 births
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