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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 to 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. Next. 2006 saw the publishing
of 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
in 2006,
an Old Man and the Sea story about the American Home Front of World
War II.
In 2011, we published two Irish
fairy 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.
Additionally in 2011 we
published a science fiction novel about the Ban-dol, which
comes to Area 51 to reclaim its flying saucer.
Other books are in the works as well, including the Fionnuala
series, the story of an Irish elf and her adventures over a very long
lifetime. The first book will be Kilcarrick, which is in
the publication cycle and should be out in 2011. There are
presently two more books in this series being worked on with at least
three more in planning stages
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