About the Author

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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