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University of California, Los Los Angeles
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Robert Metzger
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Career
Metzger began writing science fiction stories as a child, but it was not until 1987 that he sold his first science fiction short story. He published his first novel, Quad World, in 1991. lieutenant was not until 2002 that he published Picoverse.
He published his third and most recent novel, Cusp, in 2005.
Metzger"s works are widely considered hard science fiction. Greg Bear called him "one of our most ambitious writers of high-technical hard physics science fiction."
He has also written several articles on science for a popular audience for Wired magazine, and has published speculative studies involving climate engineering and space propulsion, co-authored with fellow scientist/science fiction novelists Gregory Benford and Geoffrey Landis, respectively.
Metzger is also active with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Metzger is currently the Chief Technical Officer ( Chief Technology Officer) at Kyma Technologies in Raleigh, North Carolina. He works in the areas of equipment development and crystal growth of Gallium nitride and AlN alloys by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy (HVPE) and Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), as well as the development of photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSS) used for pulsed power applications, generation of high power microwaves (HPM) and electromagnetic pulses (EMP).
Achievements
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He was a Nebula Award finalist in the novel category in 2002 for his second novel, Picoverse. Metzger holds a Bachelor of Surgery, an Master of Surgery, and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from University of California, Los Los Angeles He is co-founder of the technical journal Compound Semiconductor, and has authored over a hundred professional research papers.
