Scott R. Parkin is a literary omnivore who writes science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, lit-fic, slice-of-life, criticism, commentary, and essays. With more than thirty short story sales to date, Scott has sold to L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future vol. 31, the Fiction River anthology series, Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, Galaxy Magazine, and others. He recently finished a YA fantasy novel and is working on a two-part sf novel set in his Planetary Assessment Corporation story universe. A winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, Scott draws on a twenty-year career in technology along with extensive worldwide travel where he has come in contact with a wide variety of people with different hopes, dreams, and assumptions. His fiction spans from the realistic to the fantastic, and the absurd to scientific, technological, or philosophical speculation. He currently lives in central Utah with his wife and six children.