Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | B. B. Kristopher

Brian B. Kristopher is a former actor, costume designer and software engineer. A victim of the Dot Com craze, he now whimpers in terror at the very thought of getting another IT job.

Currently, he is working on a degree in physics with an astronomy concentration at Georgia State University.

Brian currently resides near Atlanta, Georgia with his girlfriend, proofreader, editor and occasional co-author, She Who Must Be Obeyed (Katherine Mankiller to her friends), their seven cats, Artemis, Apollo, Circe, Hermes, Iphigenia, Pan and Pandora.

His hobbies include arguing with Katherine over whether they should have Mexican or Chinese food, arguing with several of the cats over whether he's allowed to sit on the couch and arguing with Iphigenia and Pandora over whether she's allowed to eat the power cord on his laptop.

His greatest ambition is to someday win one of those arguments.

Website: http://www.bbkristopher.com

The Girl With the Killer Eyes Full Story From: "Look, Roy, I'm telling you—" "Yeah, Mike, I got it. A really hot redhead who shoots laser beams out of her eyes."

Terraforming: A Bumpy Road Ahead Full Story From: I grew up watching Marvin the Martian and Bugs Bunny fight it out over the Illudim Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator. Along the way, I also had a run-in with Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, the earlier works of Robert Heinlein and a whole host of works that depicted Mars as a vital, life bearing world. Venus often followed along side, usually as a world of swamps and tropical jungles.