Larry Wasion
Larry discovered Sci-fi at the age of nine with an introduction to Arthur C. Clarkes, Childhoods End. A shocking and compelling introduction. Subsequently, Science Fiction became his go-to for imaginative fiction. Early on, he began imagining his own tales of adventure, some percolating in his head for years.
Following 4-years of U.S. Navy service as a Vietnam veteran, he worked as a rock/jazz musician and sound technician. He followed that short career with over fifty years in leading-edge, high-tech, manufacturing management positions.
Organizations with which he was affiliated sent solutions to space on all the Space Shuttle’s final flights, their solution solving a safety problem. Another made the cameras that took the first live videos of the Titanic. If one has seen a video of towering smokers at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, this was, likely, seen through their lenses. There are miles of cable and sensors he helped produce, frozen into the Antarctic ice looking for the elusive neutrino while simultaneously pushing the envelope on undersea technology when capping a runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that other companies had failed to secure.
In 2009 he wrote a rough autobiographical tome, Slices of Life. It is sixty-one personal adventures. It was a task that taught him he had much to learn about writing and began a fascinating journey in self-education.
Upon retiring he began writing his own science fiction and in 2023 he had four books published. The four science fiction novels are collectively, the Jump Gate series with books titled:
Jump Gate I - Time Chair
Jump Gate II – Teleporter
Jump Gate III – RoadMaker
Jump Gate IV - Jump Gate.
He writes optimistic, not dystopic, tales that are character-driven in a multi-generational story, that brings the reality of family struggles to the fore while dealing with sabotage, and kidnapping while keeping a struggling company afloat.
His JUMP GATE SERIES records the history, the trials, the successes, and the failures of a technology that evolves from a quirky time machine to a space-battleship-sized Jump Gate over four volumes.
