Daniel Rirdan is an American novelist based in the Southwest. Daniel wrote Interstellar Crew longhand at thirteen, becoming Israel’s youngest published novelist. At fifteen, he wrote a book on education reform, hammering away on a rented mechanical typewriter in a laundry closet barely large enough to hold a folding table and a chair.      In his early twenties, he moved to Australia, mastering English with jotted vocabulary lists carried everywhere from the bathroom to tram stops. A year later, the peer-reviewed journal Foundation featured his essay on William Gibson.      Decades of detours, dead ends, and one PW-starred review environmental tome later, he returned to speculative fiction at fifty and hasn’t looked back since.                                             Now based in the American Southwest, he’s deep into his next few novels.      He writes stories driven by wonder and with no patience for literary fashion. As he sees it, what is possible—or can be imagined—is a wide-open country