Jack Knapp
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Jack Knapp, a top-100 Amazon SF Author, grew up in Louisiana and joined the Army after graduating from high school. He served three tours in Germany and traveled throughout western Europe before retiring. His current circle of friends and acquaintances, many of them fellow members of Mensa, live on every continent except Antarctica. Jack graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso before beginning his second career, teaching science.
Always an avid reader, he took naturally to writing. He’s experimented with ESP (The Wizards Series) and woodcraft/survivalism. The deep woods of Louisiana were his playground, the setting for his Darwin’s World Series. He’s a knight of the Society for Creative Anachronism, so combat scenes involving swords, spears, and bows and arrows are reality based.
Recent novels examine the challenges humanity will face when we begin to spread out into space. Beginning with a startup company building the first practical spacecraft (The Ship), to growing a business in space while overcoming Earth-based obstacles (NFI: New Frontiers, Inc), to humanity’s first contact with a non-human species (NEO: Near Earth Objects and BEMs: Bug Eyed Monsters) the novels are largely based on current events. A fifth novel in the New Frontiers Series, MARS: the Martian Autonomous Republic of Sol, was published May 2017, the sixth (Pirates) in December, 2018. Hybrids will be the next book in the series, forthcoming in 2021.
Jack’s historical southwestern novels explore real issues that were important at the time and feature real persons interacting with fictional characters.
Jack’s boundless imagination is evident in all his books, as are science-based details that are the difference between hard-science fiction and space opera.
Just how imaginative is he? You’ll have to read his novels to find out!