Paul Preuss fiction & science

Short bio

As an Air Force brat, my longest stay when growing up was at Sandia Base in New Mexico, where my father directed weapons-effects tests in Nevada and the Pacific. The moral choices implicit in weapons—and, as it would turn out, almost every branch of science—led to my focus on science in reality and imagination.

I was a drama major at Yale, where I graduated cum laude as a Scholar of the House in film and drama, having produced the university’s first film for academic credit. After a stint of advertising at Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in New York City, I spent six years as a filmmaker with King Screen Productions in Seattle. My first and shortest professional film there was “Over, Through, Around” for the premier episode of Sesame Street.

I continued film work in San Francisco and took up science writing and fiction with sf novels, science articles, and other works, including book reviews by the hundreds for magazines and newspapers. I then joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for sixteen years before returning to personal work.

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The Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB) lists information about my short stories, articles, and reviews that appeared in science fiction magazines, including many in Locus, created by the late Charles Brown.

personal photos

Photos were taken by my wife, Debra Turner, an excellent photographer. Click on the photos to download them.

the website’s background images:

The Greek image of the ship, shown in the Dionysos kylix, is an Attic figure from about 530 BCE, signed “Exekias made it.” Courtesy © of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Bavaria, Germany.