Jefferson P. Swycaffer was born in San Diego, and raised on a cattle ranch, where he learned to ride, shoot, and wire dynamite. Realizing that ranching is *hard work* (!) he besought a career in computers, and took up the writing of adventure *fiction* -- because real adventures are too complicated. (They're cold, wet, messy, and they make you late for dinner!)He wrote seven science-fiction stories in the "spaceships and empires" genre, and these books are associated (with permission) with the "Traveller" role-playing-gaming system. From that point forward, he has been writing "Urban Fantasy" novels, of which "Warsprite" and "Web of Futures" were the first. These were published by TSR Books. He has some fifteen more books in the same overall fantasy setting, which he refers to as the "Halcyon" series, for the unifying allusions to the Halcyon Computer Company. He is slowly in the process of putting all of these up on Amazon.com as e-books.Favorite Books -- The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin, the five "Demon Prince" novels by Jack Vance, "The Engines of God" and "Omega" by Jack McDevitt, "A Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge ("Omega" and "Deepness" are the two best "First Contact" novels in the entire science fiction canon!) and the "Tros of Samothrace" series by Talbot Mundy.Jefferson is a SF and Fantasy fan, a member of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (the "N3F") for whom he administers their annual Amateur Short Story Contest. He is active in southern California fandom, and is on the committee of ConDor, an annual convention in San Diego. He is an ardent afficionado of Furry Fandom.He can be found on "The Straight Dope" message boards, arguing vociferously about sex, religion, politics (all those things your mother told you never to discuss!) and science, art, TV and movies, and Urban Legends.