Press Kit
Short Biography of Jeff Carlson:
Jeff Carlson was born on the day of the first manned moon landing and narrowly escaped being named Apollo, Armstrong, or Rocket. His father worked for NASA-Ames at the time, and his granddad on his mother's side was a science fiction fan whose library included autographed copies of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
Both men were strong, early influences—and in the high tech 21st Century, it's easy to stand with one foot in reality and the other in sci-fi. Jeff's writing alternates between mainstream and genre fiction.
Jeff is the author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers Plague Year and Plague War, hailed by New York Times bestselling author James Rollins as "Harrowing, heartfelt, and rock-hard realistic. Not to be missed." He is currently at work on a new stand-alone thriller as well as a third Plague novel to complete the nanotech trilogy. Jeff is a first-place winner in the prestigious Writers of the Future short fiction contest. Other stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in leading venues such as Boys' Life, Asimov's Science Fiction, and the new Fast Forward 2 anthology from Pyr Books.
To date, his writing has also sold in six foreign languages, Spanish (Plague Year and Plague War), German (the entire Plague Year trilogy), Romanian (both Year and War), Czech ("The Frozen Sky"), Turkish ("The Frozen Sky"), and Hebrew ("Pressure" and several other short stories).
Jeff lives with his wife and sons in California.
Long Biography
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