Christopher’s journey into science fiction and fantasy began in the 1980s, though he didn’t realize it at the time.
After his parents brought home an Atari 400 computer, young Christopher found himself captivated. Even though it could take almost an hour to load some games from cassette tapes on to the computer, the idea that entire worlds could be stored on flimsy magnetic strips was mesmerizing. His imagination ran wild with possibilities. What would happen if he loaded his dad’s copy of the Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack into the Atari? Would there be a picture of a seagull on the screen? A game to play? Could he somehow communicate with Neil Diamond? While those questions might seem silly, they sparked something important: a sense of wonder about the world and the invisible forces that shaped his reality.
A few years later, his parents purchased a large multi-volume set of World Book Encyclopedias. This purchase that might seem quaint now, but at the time, that knowledge, sitting on shelves in his own home, was priceless. Christopher devoured those books cover to cover, spending hours absorbing information about everything from ancient civilizations to distant exo-planets; from the Beatles, to Beetles. When a dial-up modem arrived installed in a new family computer, it opened connections to even more worlds: BBSs, CompuServe, AOL, and eventually direct access to the World Wide Web. He taught himself about operating systems, programming languages, and computer hardware. What really captivated him, however, was the way technology created connections between people and ideas across the world.
Throughout all of this, Christopher kept reading—constantly. Science fiction and fantasy novels showed him that the best stories asked “what if?” in exactly the same way he’d wondered about that cassette tape decades ago. These stories filled his mind with even more questions. What if you could store consciousness digitally? What if magic operated by rules as precisely as those used by his computer? What if the boundaries between possible and impossible were more flexible than we assumed?
Now, after years of working in the field of technology, and consuming stories of all kinds, Christopher has taken on a new role: author. He brings to speculative fiction a unique perspective shaped by his lifelong passion for both technology and questions that drove his thoughts constantly forward. His work explores the intersection of the possible and the fantastical. Asking the same kinds of questions that captivated him as a child. Just as he’s always believed that knowledge should be freely shared, he now shares the stories that have been building in his his mind over the decades, inviting readers to wonder alongside him.