Doug Franklin has spent most of his life in Alaska with the stunning Chugach Range as his backyard and the blue waters of Resurrection Bay just a couple hours down the highway. When he’s not hiking, skiing, or kayaking with his black lab-mix rescue pups, he can be found at his workbench building starship models, rockets, and radio control sailplanes. He loves things that fly, and has spent many hours hiking up mountains and gliding back down under the graceful arch of a paraglider. He’s equally handy with a rifle and a soldering iron.

His writing draws on these everyday Last Frontier experiences as well as adventures around the world. As a young man he hitchhiked across the Sahara Desert, bought a horse and rode it between villages in the African Sahel, and narrowly avoided arrest crossing into Ghana shortly after a revolution. He has trekked in Nepal, and had the bad judgement to punch a stick through his foot in central India. He backpacked from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the other and back again in five days, took a day for laundry, resupply, and recharge, and hiked four more days through Paria Canyon, the longest, deepest slot canyon in the world.

Franklin combines a keen sense of adventure with a degree from MIT in Earth and Planetary Science to create exceptional science fiction populated by complex characters who are faced with problems extrapolated from the world we live in now.