Kenneth Mark Hoover
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Allen, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I have sold over thirty short stories and articles to professional and semi-professional magazines. My first science fiction novel, FEVREBLAU, was published by Five Star Press in 2005 and sold out its first print run. (Yay!) I am working on short stories at present. I attend one or two science fiction conventions every year and am always happy to meet new writers and readers of all kinds of fiction. So feel free to drop by and say hello! I was born in deep Louisiana sugarcane country but grew up in South Texas. I have two degrees, one in journalism and a bachelors degree in science (physics and chemistry) education. My main passions outside writing include chess, amateur astronomy, shotokan karate and politics. I am an unabashed Yellow Dog Democrat and an opinionated bookworm who listens to everything from Tchaikovsky to Rob Zombie. I have worked as a surveyor, an educator and a salesman, but my first love is writing. I currently live in Dallas. |
| Interests | abstract art, albert einstein, alice cooper, alternative rock, anais nin, ancient japan, ancient rome, architecture, art, astronomy, barbeques, baseball, beagles, books, bookstores, bushido, camping, chemistry, chess, chicago cubs, cigars, classical music, classics, coffee, comics, computer games, computers, cooking, democracy, democrats, editing, education, erotica, espionage, ethnic food, fantasy, fiction, film, fishing, food, foreign movies, free speech, golf, halloween, henry miller, history, horned toads, horror, james bond novels, japan, jazz, karate, learning, liberal talk radio, liberals, libraries, literature, lone wolf and cub, louis armstrong, magazines, martial arts, model rocketry, model trains, movie posters, movies, mysteries, new orleans, new wave, novels, olympics, opera, philosophy, physicists, physics, politics, progressives, quiller, reading, rob zombie, rock and roll music, rockets, role playing games, samurai, science, science fiction, science fiction conventions, short stories, short story, shotokan, space program, space travel, submarines, teaching, telescopes, thanksgiving, thrillers, turtles, videos, vikings, wine, writers, writing, yellow dog democrats |
| Favorite movies | The Seventh Seal, The Lion in Winter, Das Boot, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Last of the Mohicans, The Bride of Frankenstein, Sunset Boulevard, Freaks, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, Doctor Zhivago, Apocalypse Now, Topkapi, Black Narcissus, Casablanca, Psycho, Ran, Throne of Blood, Seven Samurai, Citizen Kane, The Red Shoes, Sunrise |
| Favorite music | Everything from Tchaikovsky to Rob Zombie. No rap, though. |
| Favorite books | Tropic of Cancer, Shogun, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Time Enough For Love, The Forever War, Lolita, Dracula, Dhalgren, 1984, A Farewell To Arms, Flowers For Algernon, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, Gateway, Dune, The Metamorphosis, From Russia With Love, The Iliad, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Moby Dick, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Black Seas of Infinity, Lord of the Rings, Dr. No, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, I the Jury, The Human Factor, The Rhinnemann Exchange, The Mandarin Cypher, Curtain, A Study in Scarlet, The Rosy Crucifixion (includes Sexus, Plexus and Nexus), Macbeth, Les Miserables, The Sound and the Fury, Medea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Justine, Lone Wolf and Cub, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, The Void Captain's Tale, A Princess of Mars |