Ctein is a professional author and photographer. He is the co-author, with John Sandford, of the New York Times bestelling science fiction thriller, "Saturn Run." He has recently written a natural disaster thriller with David Gerrold entitled "Ripple Effect." Ctein is also the author of "Digital Restoration From Start To Finish" and "Post Exposure."

Photographically, he is best known in the SF community for his photographs of eclipses, aurora, natural and unnatural scenics, and space launches and his hand-printed fine-art books. His photographic work can be seen at http://ctein.com and photo-repair.com. Ctein's been an industrial consultant on computer displays, a technical writer of computer manuals, has degrees in English and Physics from Caltech, and has engaged in pollution research, astronomy, photocopy research, world designing for CONTACT, and radical feminist queer activism. Ctein identifies as "radical poly feminist bi-queer."

Not necessarily in that order.

If he grows up, he wants to be a dilettante.

Ctein lives in Daly City with retired technical writer and geologist Paula Butler, three demented psittacines, a half dozen more-or-less normal computers, and twenty kilobooks. He reports that the house seems to be shrinking...