Short bio

After decades as a full time science writer, covering all fields but specializing in cosmology and high-energy physics, and, more recently, engineering,  Paul Preuss has returned to writing fiction. Prior to his years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he wrote sf novels, science articles, and other works (including book reviews by the hundreds). Before that he made documentary films and worked on award-winning network TV specials—his first and shortest professional film was “Over, Through, Around” for the premier episode of Sesame Street. He was a drama major at Yale, where he graduated with honors as a Scholar of the House in film and drama, having produced the university’s first film for academic credit. As an air force brat he grew up in various places, with the longest stay at Sandia Base in New Mexico, where his father directed weapons effects tests in Nevada and the Pacific. The moral choices implicit in weapons work—and, as it would turn out, almost every branch of science—led to Preuss’s focus on science in reality and imagination.

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

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photo credits

website background images:
Dionysos kylix, Attic black figure ca 530 BCE, signed “Exekias made it,” Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich

Visualization of a Higgs boson event with two energetic photons, ATLAS Experiment, © 2013 CERN

Paul Preuss photos by Debra Turner