About the Author
Alan ‘Doc’ Hansen
I am a lifelong fan of science fiction. Growing up in a small town in Utah, I became enamored with the science fiction genre as I devoured early science fiction writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, e.e. Doc Smith, and Robert Heinlein. As an adult, I continued to enjoy science fiction while I completed three degrees one in Japanese, Business, and Higher Education. I was an early adopter of online education, having worked at the university level as an administrator and professor.
My focus in writing science fiction is on adventure and character development. Demeter was intended as a three-book series but the story arc for the series ultimately demanded five books to complete. The five main characters in the series are derived from observations of my own five children. The lively character Debbie is by no means an exaggeration of my youngest daughter.
The journey of editing, publishing to Kindle, then to paperback, and now to Audiobooks has been fraught with numerous delays ranging from too much multi-tasking to family tragedies. Still the story is worth it. It is not dystopian but very optimistic, and clearly illustrates how people can change and grow. Few if any individuals are without hope of redemption.
If you walk away from Orion’s Spur series without laughing and crying, I have failed.
After getting the five books of the Orion’s Spur series finally into audiobooks, I’ll be moving onto two other finished manuscripts. One, a more serious political thriller set in the near future exploring our solar system and the resources within Salt of the Earth. The other is yet untitled, but the working title may signal some elements of the plot, Project Lilliput.