Who are the authors I most revere? Stanislaw Lem, for his slow-burn philosophical scifi; Christopher Priest for his mind-bending mirror fiction; Gene Wolfe for his stunning world-building; John Wyndham for his plot and narrative genius; and J.G. Ballard for his surreal visions of the future. I take elements from these authors and blend them into stories that span genres and hybridize tropes to create worlds sometimes deceptively familiar and at others far, far different than the places we know.