Background

Doug Beason was born on December 3, 1953, in the United States.

Education

Beason graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and math. He earned a Master of Science degree in physics from the University of New Mexico, as well as a Master of Science degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from the University of New Mexico.

Career

Beason worked at such organization as the Kirkland Air Force Base, holding a position of a Deputy Director of Advanced Weapons and Survivability. He also served at the United States Air Force. Beason held a position of an associate laboratory director for Threat Reduction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, retiring from that post in 2008. Nowadays, he writes books full time, lectures and consults. Additionally, Beason is a contributor to periodicals, including the Amazing Science Fiction.

Beason has put his United States Air Force background and doctorate in physics to use in his science fiction books and technothrillers. He first began publishing in 1987, when his short story “The Man I’ll Never Be” appeared in Amazing Science Fiction. It was followed by the book-length adventures Return to Honor (1989) and Assault on Alpha Base (1990). The latter concerns a terrorist attack and takeover of the main nuclear stockpile in the United States. Strike Eagle, published in 1991, tells the story of a young Air Force lieutenant who must rescue the United States President-elect from a band of Philippine rebels holding him hostage.

Beason has teamed with Kevin J. Anderson, author of several bestselling Star Wars volumes, to write a handful of adventure novels. Lifeline tells the story of three space colonies after a nuclear war has destroyed the earth. Assemblers of Infinity describes the signaling of an invasion by an alien artifact. Ill Wind is the story of the unexpected and catastrophic environmental results of a genetically engineered organism made to clean up oil spills. In the near-future thriller Virtual Destruction, an FBI agent is asked to solve the murder of a man who has invented a virtual reality chamber.

Generally, Beason is the author of eighteen books and novels - nine novels with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, and a novel with Ben Bova, as well as two non-fiction books.

Achievements

• Beason's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. Beason's book Assemblers of Infinity was nominated for a Nebula Award and was judged a “superior action-science fiction novel” by Roland Green in Booklist. His book Science and Technology Policy for the post-Cold War: A Case for Long-Term Research was awarded the National Defense University President's Strategic Vision Award.
  
  The novel The Trinity Paradox, written with Beason's co-author Kevin Anderson's became the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award, promoting the understanding of physics in society, it was also the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.

Works

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  • There Will Be War

    (Volume X; There Will Be War is a landmark science fiction...)

    2015
  • Assemblers of Infinity

    (The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery o...)

    2015
  • The Cadet

    (The Cadet, Book 1 of the Wild Blue U saga, chronicles the...)

    2015
  • The E-Bomb

    (How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the...)

    2009
  • Ill Wind

    (It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker cra...)

    2010
  • The Trinity Paradox

    (Activist Elizabeth Devane wished for an end to nuclear we...)

    2011
  • Ignition

    (In this high-tech action adventure from Kevin J. Anderson...)

    2010
  • Return to Honor

    (Five thousand miles from the U.S., the president of the U...)

    2014
  • Strike Eagle 2014
  • Lifeline 2014

Politics

Beason has over thirty-five years of research and development experience that spans conducting basic research to directing nationally important, applied-science programs and formulating national policy.

Membership

Beason is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a Life Member of the United States Air Force Academy Association of Graduates, the Military Officers Association of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is also a past Vice President of the Directed Energy Professional Society.