Prior to retirement I spent my working life in the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning at the UC Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. In 1970 three partners and I formed a startup software and electronics company, a novel idea back then. I am proud to say the company we began still remains. I have worked as a physicist, a computer software designer, an engineer, a computer scientist, a geophysicist, an entrepreneur, and a corporate executive. Over that time I authored a number of technical and trade articles. Today my passion is writing fiction focusing on disaster scenarios, what some people might consider old-style science fiction, something involving big science. A major earthquake along the New Madrid Fault was an easy choice, especially after observing the state of denial of many in the central United States.