D. A. Kelly, PhD is autistic, a second-generation SF fan, the author of five nonfiction books and one novel, and has resided in eight countries so far, in North America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania, working in aerospace, information science, renewable energy, media production, and ESL, and living under democracy, theocracy, aristocracy, communism, oligarchy, kleptocracy, and anarchy.
