Contact Front: Drop Trooper, Book 1 - Rick Partlow
Partlow, Rick: - Rick Partlow is that rarest of species, a native Floridian. Born in Tampa, he attended Florida Southern College and graduated with a degree in History and a commission in the US Army as an Infantry officer. \nHis lifelong love of science fiction began with Have Space Suit---Will Travel and the other Heinlein juveniles and traveled through Clifford Simak, Asimov, Clarke and on to William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams and Peter F Hamilton. And somewhere, submerged in the worlds of others, Rick began to create his own worlds. \n \nHe has written over 60 books in a dozen different series, and his short stories have been included in twelve different anthologies.\n