Ctein
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...
Sessions in which Ctein participates
- Telling Good Science from Bad San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- There are all kinds of bad science out there — simple errancy (cold fusion), crackpottery (HIV doesn't cause AIDS), fraud (vaccines cause autism), ...
- What's Going on with the Polar Vortex? San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- We've now seen the Midwest deep frozen to the point where it was colder than Antarctica, while Australia's heat wave is the worst on record. How do...
- Signing: Ctein San Mateo Marriott - Convene Lobby
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour
- Readings Group 2 San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- From Alice Grove to xkcd: The Internet as a Platform for Comic Creation and Comic Reading San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Defending THOSE Movies San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
- 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes