J.C. Plaza

Juan Carlos Plaza is an aerospace engineer and physicist, and has been passionate about science fiction since childhood.

He was born in Almería (in the south-east corner of Spain) in the 1980s and moved to Madrid to study aeronautics at the turn of the millennium. Since completing his first degree, he has been conducting research at the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Defence, and has taken the opportunity to combine his work with obtaining a degree in Physical Sciences. He currently works with unmanned aircraft systems, at least until his income as a writer allows him to devote himself to writing science fiction full time.

He spent his free time before the birth of his daughter on a wide variety of activities, including role-playing and board games, wargames, fencing, historical swordsmanship, airsoft and, of course, reading copiously.

With the appearance of gray hair and a certain maturity, and after decades of reading, watching, discussing, and thinking about science fiction, he has embarked on the adventure of writing, discovering along the way that he greatly enjoys popularising science.

He is the author of the novels ‘UFO: Redemption’ (Ed. Trantor, 2023) and ‘Moon Wars’ (Ed. Trantor, 2026), and he continues to write new novels while ideas for the next ones pile up.