Background
Erwin was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Five years ago, Kate jumped on every opportunity to come out here. She'd loved the thrill of staring off the ship's stern, watching the Sun slowly shrink, peering as closely at the white-hot thrusters as she could before Virgil shut off her visor. She'd loved looking forward at Acadia's magnetic scoop, trying to catch some glimpse of the invisible cone that was funneling the vacuum's stray atoms into its antimatter furnace. In those days, she'd even grinned at the dizzying challenge of spacewalking on a rotating cylinder. But that was five years ago . . . A hundred years from now, humanity is reaching for the stars, but a mysterious force which has shaped the course of the 21st century now threatens to destroy civilization. A small group of people - some human, some AI - must face choices which will change the course of history. Acadia is the first novel by James Erwin.
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Erwin was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He attended the University of Iowa.
He has written several works of history and science fiction. He came to public notice by creating Rome Sweet Rome, a short story on Reddit which went viral and became the basis of a Warner Brothers screenplay. He currently lives in Des Moines, Iowa.
In 2009, Erwin was a two-time Jeopardy!
Erwin"s first book was published in 2007.
He worked as a technical writer He came to public notice when he created the story Rome Sweet Rome.
Written in response to a question on Reddit, the story quickly went viral. Featured in national media, the story came to the attention of producer Gianni Nunnari, as well as the motion picture studio Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers bought a screenplay based on the short story, and Erwin became the subject of profiles and interviews in Wired Magazine, Time, FT, and other media.
Rome Sweet Rome remains popular. lieutenant was later revealed that screenwriter Brian Miller had been hired by Warner Brothers to write a second draft of the screenplay. Erwin parlayed his success into a Kickstarter campaign for his first novel Acadia.
He has also written for outlets like Wired, Mental Floss, Boing Boing, and Slate.com.
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