Grant Fjermedal:  

Life has been fun. It must have been all those days making up stories in Mr. Muse's biology class, but I ended up doing a lot of science writing. After Stadium I atteneded Tacoma Community College for two years and still think it had the best teachers of my college years. It was a blast. I wrote for and then edited the TCC student paper. "The Collegiate Challenge" ;-) To pay my way through TCC I got a job in the library at the Tacoma News Tribune, and then worked my way into being a reporter. Ater TCC I transferred up to the University of Washington, and based on all the writing I'd done for the TNT, was able to get a job as a reporter for the Seattle Times. That was a kick. Graduated from the UW and went to Europe for a while, came back and got a job with the Associated Press, working out of its Seattle Bureau. Became a science and medical writer and a few years later left the AP to write books. Books are good fun - but a lot of work - to write. Books so far include: - "Magic Bullets" (Macmillan, hardback, 1984) a behind the scenes look at medicine and cancer research. - "The Tomorrow Makers" (Macmillan, hardback, 1986; Microsoft Press, paperback, 1987) about artificial intelligence, robotics, and the future of humanity. The American Library Association named it one of the 10 best nonfiction books published in 1987, and the New Yorker magazine ran a brief excerpt. - "New Horizons in Amateur Astronomy" (G.P. Putnam's 1989, paperback). While writing "The Tomorrow Makers" I got int...Expand for more