Gibraltar Sun (Gibraltar Stars, Volume 2)

Michael McCollum was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1946, and is a graduate of Arizona State University, where he majored in aerospace propulsion and minored in nuclear engineering. He is employed at Honeywell in Tempe, Arizona, where he is Chief Engineer in the valve product line. In his career, Mr. McCollum has worked on the precursor to the Space Shuttle Main Engine, a nuclear valve to replace the one that failed at Three Mile Island, several guided missiles, Space Station Freedom, and virtually every aircraft in production today. He was involved in an effort to create a joint venture company with a major Russian aerospace engine manufacturer and traveled extensively to Russia in the last several years. In addition to his engineering, Mr. McCollum is a successful professional writer in the field of science fiction. He is the author of a dozen pieces of short fiction and has appeared in magazines such as Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Amazing, and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. His novels (originally published by Ballantine-Del Rey) include A Greater Infinity, Life Probe, Procyon’s Promise, Antares Dawn, Antares Passage, The Clouds of Saturn, and The Sails of Tau Ceti, His novel, Thunderstrike!, was optioned by a Hollywood production company for a possible movie. Several of these books have subsequently been translated into Japanese, German and Russian. Mr. McCollum is the proprietor of Sci Fi - Arizona, one of the first author-owned-and-operated virtual bookstores on the INTERNET, which first published Gibraltar Earth, Gibraltar Sun, and Antares Victory. He also runs Third Millennium Publishing, an INTERNET site that provides web and publishing services to independent author/publishers. Mr. McCollum is married to a lovely lady named Catherine, and has three children: Robert, Michael, and Elizabeth. Robert is a financial analyst for a computer company in Massachusetts. Michael is a student and recently completed a stint as a Military Police Specialist with the Arizona National Guard, which included a year in the lovely land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Elizabeth is a graduate student at Arizona Sate University.McCollum, Michael is the author of 'Gibraltar Sun (Gibraltar Stars, Volume 2)' with ISBN 9781932657555 and ISBN 193265755X.