The Ghostrider practicing freefall in HD

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Allen Ghostrider is seventeen years old, trapped in an older body and in a land where time is faster and gravity greater than it was in his youth.  A fair to middlin’ student of life, smart, and easily distracted.  He was introduced to Science Fiction as a youth growing up in Seattle, and became a good friend of Kelly Freas, winner of eleven HUGOs.  Joining the Science Fiction community, for decades he has traded ideas and concerns with that free-for-all group. 

 

Al plied the seven seas while coming of age on a submarine, going from a naïve seaman recruit to Lieutenant Commander, and garnering the fabulous orders of Golden Dragon, Dolphins (Silver and Gold), Shellback and maybe Bluenose (that year is clouded in secrecy). 

 

Also drawn to Space, Al participated in numerous military space launches, received a graduate degree in Oceanography with a focus on planetary physics, as well as being one of the first submariners nominated by the Navy for the Astronaut Program at NASA.  

 

He spends significant time as a Master Electrician, Engineer and Natural Philosopher.  His most satisfying occupation is spent helping young people to become electricians and tradesmen, because when he was in grad school, the Professors disdained the Assistant Professors, who poo-pooed the Engineers, who shunned the technicians, and here he was, a lowly jock trying to keep up with his betters.  What better way to resolve the issue than to help our youth who somehow got lost in the public educational system.

 

He lives with his wife and a fully Modern American Family at his home near Seattle.