Thomas Settimi graduated from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and holds a master's degree in physics from the University of California at Riverside. For much of his early professional career he was engaged in technical writing and engineering for the Department of the Navy and defense-related firms. He later became the general manager of a manufacturing firm in Huntington Beach, California.
As a youth, Thomas enjoyed Robert Heinlein, especially THE DOOR INTO SUMMER and EARTH ABIDES by George R. Stewart. Favorite novel: Stephen King's 11.22.63.
Thomas and his wife Charlotte (and standard poodle, Rufus) moved from Lake Arrowhead, California, to Brookings, Oregon in 2019.
Thomas Settimi graduated from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and holds a master's degree in physics from the University of California at Riverside. For much of his early professional career he was engaged in technical writing and engineering for the Department of the Navy and defense-related firms. He later became the general manager of a manufacturing firm in Huntington Beach, California.
As a youth, Thomas enjoyed...
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Convergence
The feathery white ribbons in the sky above Adams County, Pennsylvania, were nothing unusual—just the vapor trail evidence of high-flying aircraft that one might see on any day. But for the men on the ground below they were a puzzlement. And no wonder: the year was 1863 and the men were Confederate soldiers marching toward the most significant...
Roswell 1947
After helping solve the very strange case of a Vietnam-era pilot caught up in a cosmic disruption in time and space as described in the author’s novel CONVERGENCE (ISBN 1419661515), Professor Roger Atwood and Amanda Marshall are off on a new quest. In 1947, Colonel Dieter Hedrick was a young lieutenant serving in the Public Information Office at...
Beak of the Turtle
They came from the stars—from a place in the night sky known to the ancients as the “Beak of the Turtle.” They came to Earth in search of their roots and found a civilization that had just begun to stir.
In 1953 Professor Tsum was employed as an instructor and researcher in the Anthropology Department at Beijing University. At the urging of a...