Ross B. Lampert

Ross B. Lampert’s loves for science and writing revealed themselves early: he wrote a one-act play recreating a flight of one of the Mercury spaceflight missions that was performed in his third grade class. (And yes, his mother kept a copy, which he now has.) These interests went dormant for a while, but in junior high school, 8th grade science teacher Penny Ashby reignited his interest in science and English teacher Irma Mapelli did the same for his interest in language. Lampert discovered the two could be combined when he found British science fiction writer Andre Norton’s novel "Moon of Three Rings" in the school library. (Yes, he still has a copy of that too.) The rest, as they say, is future history.

Lampert dabbled with writing SF and fantasy through high school, college (where he just barely earned a bachelor’s degree in physics), and a more than 22 year career in the Air Force, but got serious about it only after retiring from the Service. He received a Master of Arts degree (with honors) with a creative writing specialization in 2006. An early draft of his first novel, "The Eternity Plague," was his thesis project.

While Lampert has published short stories in New Plains Review and Mirage, and occasional op-eds and news articles, novels are his primary interest. "The Eternity Plague" was published in 2013 and its sequel, "Chrysalis," was published in 2015. He also blogs at his web site, SplitSun, at https://www.rossblampert.com. You can sign up for his newsletter--Eclipse: The Newsletter from Beyond the Known--by e-mailing him at news@rossblampert.com.

Lampert was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and now lives in southeastern Arizona. In between, he went to college in Boulder, Colorado, was stationed in Arizona, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Germany, and South Korea, and deployed to over a dozen other countries. He is the co-founder of the Cochise and Upper San Pedro Valley Writers’ Groups. You can follow him on Twitter, be his friend on Facebook, and connect with him on LinkedIn.