Dr. Charles E. Gannon’s award-winning Caine Riordan/Terran Republic hard SF novels have been multiply bestselling and Nebula finalists. He also collaborates with Eric Flint in the NYT and WSJ best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series.
His other novels and short fiction straddle the divide between hard SF and technothrillers and have appeared through various imprints and in various magazines. He also worked extensively in game design and writing, as well as being a scriptwriter and producer in New York City, where his clients included the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and PBS.
A Distinguished Professor of English and Fulbright Senior specialist, his book Rumors of War and Infernal Machines won the 2006 American Library Association Choice Award for Outstanding Book. He is a recipient of five Fulbright Fellowships and Travel Grants and has been a subject matter expert both for national media venues such is NPR and the Discovery Channel, as well as for various intelligence and defense agencies, including DHS, Pentagon, Air Force, Army, Marines, NATO, DARPA, ONR, NRO, NASA, and several other organizations with which he signed NDA’s.
