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Paul Reilly
A technologist who earned his Ph.D. in 1972, Paul Reilly started
off writing PDP-11 assembly programs for Digital Equipment Corporation
in the early 1970's, before moving to the Silicon Valley in 1979 to
join the microprocessor revolution. A veteran of too many start-ups,
Paul eventually joined Silicon Graphics, where he first wrote code for
Unix, and then moved on to networking, telecommunications, digital
video and compression. A quick learner, he mastered Ethernet, FDDI,
Token Ring, TCP/UDP/IP, ATM, SDH, SONET, MPEG, JPEG and a host of
other technologies.
Early on, creative writing became a major release for him from the
daily grind of the high-technology world. As the years went by, the
pile of manuscripts accumulated, until in 1999, he sold out and
retired in the Sierra foothills of California. Finally free of the
daily route 101 commute, Paul has at last had time to finish these
books and publish them. The first were The
Espionage Game and Dragon Fire. Now we are publishing the
first two books of the Alex O'Connor trilogy, Negrita and
The Rule, which are a fictionalized autobiography.
In addition, we published Sea Eagle
this year,
an Old Man and the Sea story about the American Home Front of World
War II.
We plan to soon publish two Irish
fair tales written by Paul as well. The first is The Legend of
Dearbhaíl, a fairy legend set in the prehistory of Ireland, and
Dearbhaíl's Lament, a Romeo and Juliet tragedy set in the
Troubles of Northern Ireland in 1924.
Additional books are in
progress. One is a science fiction novel about the Ban Dol,
which comes to Area 51 to reclaim its flying saucer, and another is Gaea's
Daughters, about two women's search for a father for their
children.
Others in the
preliminary stages include a sequel to The Espionage Game.
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