Erasmo Acosta was born in Cantura, Venezuela, and moved to the United States in 1996 to pursue a software engineering career, sponsored by a small Silicon Valley company. He retired to Portland, Oregon, in 2020 after achieving 32 successful years in the industry. In 2015, Acosta became interested in the implications of the Fermi Paradox as it relates to the prospects of finding another civilization in the universe. Further research into Futurism, upcoming technologies, and the works of American physicist Gerard O’Neill, led him to write K3+. The dystopian novel explores human migration, triggered by inequality and climate change, to rotating habitats in space, based on many currently available technologies. Acosta tells the story of how humanity moved past the unsettling times we live in to a post-scarcity and egalitarian society—absent of fear, uncertainty, inequality, and despair.
space opera
Interview with Author – James Murdo
James Murdo was born and raised in London, where he still lives. He graduated from university with a Masters degree in Physics, which added fuel to his early love of science fiction. His favourite book, hands down, is The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks.
Interview with Author – TJ Mott
TJ Mott was raised on a cattle farm near the booming metropolis of Westboro, Missouri (population ~140). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Northwest Missouri State University. Currently, he works in Omaha, Nebraska as a software engineer and general-purpose IT guy in the aerospace industry. His hobbies include dirt biking, 3D printers, shooting sports, and writing.
One of his favorite past times as a kid was reading the Star Wars Expanded Universe novels, and he’s wanted to do some writing of his own for as long as he can remember. Now he’s working on two related series, “The Thaddeus Marcell Chronicles” and “Secrets of Earth”, following the adventures of an interstellar mercenary company whose leader is trying to find the mythical world of Earth.