Featured Interview With Jim Cronin
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Today, I am a happily semi-retired science teacher living in the Denver, Colorado area. After over thirty years teaching I decided to try and figure out what I wanted to do if and when I ever grew up. Currently, I work three days a week at teh Denver Museum of Nature and Science as an educator/performer. My job now allows me to become an astronaut on Mars, a pirate bacteriologist, play gallileo with water balloons, and play with kids all day. So much fun. Still teaching science, but without all the paper grading!
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I have always loved books, but school took away much of the joy with all the textbooks I had to read. Once I graduated and had time to decompress, I regained my love of a good story and have had a book, or two or three, at my side ever since. I love many different and diverse genres, but science fiction and fantasy are my true loves. I’ve read LOTR at least five times.
I never considered writing until I was almost sixty years old. I was helping my brother with some ideas for a book he was writing when he challenged me to write one of my own. It proved to be so much fun, I kept going.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I think my inspiration comes from the old school science fiction authors. Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, H.G. Wells and others. I love the way science fiction can be used a a medium to give us a bit of insight into ourselves and current situation without being too heavy handed. A well written, story, with strong characters is something I strive for. I want to bring people into a new world of my invention that reflects our own.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Brin Archives is an epic scifi trilogy involving time travel, clones, high tech biologic enhancements, political intrigue, power, greed and values, all set in a unique universe.
Hegira, Book one of the series, tells the story of Karm. Discovered by aliens as a vial of DNA in a derelict spaceship, he is cloned and implanted with an advanced biocomputer which gives him extrodinary abilities. The aliens give him the task of traveling back in time to rescue his species from their dying sun and bring them to a new world. He must overcome the political power of the government which wants to take control over teh project, and a group of fanatics who try to stop them all as heretics.
Recusant, Book two, picks up the story several hundred years in the future with Maliche, a distant descendant of Karm and the others in book one. Maliche discovers a terrible secret the government and his own family is covering up and attempts to set right this evil . He discovers a race of people thought to be long extinct and learns the truth about how his ancestors settled on this world, a far different story from the one everyone is taught.
Empyrean, book three, is still in the editing process, but should be released later this year.
Books one and two of the series are in print and available on Amazon, book three iis in its final stages of editing and should be available later this year. Here, Maliche and others suspect the aliens who first rescued Karm and helped rescue the Brin may not be who they have claimed to be. The enemy in an ongoing intergalactic war may not be the real enemy. Maliche and several others, some of whom have the ability to control technology telepathically, must travel back in time to discover the truth before a new technological wonder is activated. Is the device the answer to all energy needs of the galaxy, or the means of its total annihilation?
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