Though I have published a small number of magazine articles, most of my publications have been in scientific journals.

I never thought I'd ever write a book like Nuking Mecca.  Back in the nineties, I started working on a grand sci-fi space opera which today is a half-a-million word mess.  I doubt I'll ever finish it.  Nuking Mecca, on the other hand, was something that just happened to me - or at least it seems that way.  I just sat down at the computer and the book really wrote itself.