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About the Authors
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The Starman Team
Most books are written by
a single person. The Starman Series, however, is quite different: it
was written by three people, each of whom used his individual
talents to contribute a different part of the book. The result of
this collaboration is seamless—you probably would never have known
that three people were behind these books if we hadn't told you.
Together, the three make up the team behind the pseudonym Michael D.
Cooper.
Those people are:
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 Jon
Cooper
This person was
responsible for writing the plots of the Starman Series. In
order to have a story you have to have a plot, and Jon was the
person who stared at a blank piece of paper until a plot
appeared on it. By the time he was done, he'd created a 10,000
to 20,000 word document that specified exactly what should
happen in each chapter of the next Starman story. His plot was
often changed and improved by the other team members, who took
it and by hard work and magic turned it into a great story.
Biography:
Jon Cooper, born in 1980, is a computer programmer living in
Corryton, just north of Knoxville, Tennessee. He works for a
company called
Pilot Travel Centers. Jon’s family traveled extensively
for business when he was young, and he ended up visiting
nineteen foreign countries by the time he was 20. Former
residences include a several month stay in a
thousand-year-old former monastery on an island in the
Saone River in Lyon, France.
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Mike Dodd
The Starman
Series is a science-fiction series, and as such it depends
pretty heavily on science. Mike Dodd was the official science
advisor for the series, and helped to keep us at least somewhat
realistic. He also came up with many of the core concepts of the
series (like the Xenobots, the mantaship, the orbit of the tenth
planet, and the pocket worlds).
Biography:
Mike Dodd, born in 1957, is a social worker, part-time NASA
consultant, and amateur zeppelin builder in Norfolk, Virginia.
He has a love for science fiction, especially the classic
science fiction of the 1950s, and likes to tinker around and
make interesting gadgets.
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 David
Baumann
Having a plotter
and a science advisor is good, but if you want a book you have
got to have a writer—preferably a really good writer, who can
take an idea and develop it into something cool. David Baumann
is the writer of the Starman Series, and he's quite a good one
too - it's amazing what he can do with the plots and ideas the
other two members come up with. One of his great strengths is
a fine talent for description, and vivid imagery can be found
throughout the series.
Biography:
David Baumann, born in 1948, is an Episcopal priest who
follows the high Anglican tradition in Placentia, California.
He is the rector of the
Episcopal Church of the Blessed Sacrament. He is also a
master karate instructor and a free-lance writer. He somehow
managed to
write one to two books a year, several short stories for
the Starman saga, and a number of articles in other
publications.
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