Location: United States
Member Since: Sep. 17, 2011

Rick Novy


Biography

Rick Novy makes his home in a suburb of that great metropolitan desert region of Arizona known as Phoenix. He grew up in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater with a bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics (double major).

He moved to California and lived in the Bay Area for a decade, during which he earned a masters of science in engineering at San Jose State University. In 1999 he moved to Arizona (it’s a wry heat).

Rick spent 14 years as an engineer in the semiconductor industry. He is currently adjunct faculty in the mathematics department at a local community college.

Rick has more interests than he has time to devote. He is a fish keeper suffering from MTS (multiple tank syndrome). One tank features difficult to find purebred Endler’s Livebearers, a species he keeps because it is nearly extinct in the wild from habitat destruction and is being crossbred with guppies by shortsighted breeders and pet shops to the extent that uncrossed Endlers are nearly impossible to find.

Where to find Rick Novy online

Website: http://ricknovy.com
Twitter: ricknovy
Blog: http://www.ricknovy.com/frothing-at-the-mouth/

Where to buy in print

http://www.ricknovy.com/bibliography/

Books

Rigel Kentaurus    by Rick Novy
Price: $4.95 USD. 93520 words. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction.
It's the first human voyage outside the solar system, and Proxima Centauri is the destination. The sleeper ship Deep Space discovers we are not alone, and not everyone out there is nice. Diverted to Alpha Centauri A (Rigel Kentaurus) for a faster-than-light prototype, they learn humanity is the only civilization to solve the light barrier problem. Now, they must defend it as a military secret.
Winter    by Rick Novy
Price: $1.50 USD. 20320 words. Published on April 30, 2012. Fiction.
Two stories in one volume. Winter - When humans return to Earth after 20,000 years of time dilation, things are no longer as they were, for this is not the earth they expected to find. The Adjoa Gambit - On occupied Earth, mankind inhabits the Antarctic Reservation for Indigenous Peoples. But the occupiers like to gamble, and the new family has lost their shelter.
Throwing a Haymaker    by Rick Novy
Price: $1.50 USD. 6730 words. Published on April 30, 2012. Fiction.
Category: Short Fiction Classification: Science Fiction Length: 6600 words When Doctor Harry Westmore comes to visit carrying a stack of punch cards and intent upon using his computer, the wealthy Bart Toynbee thought it strange. When Westmore declared the discovery of weather control, Toynbee decides to dedicate his wealth to bring rain to countries hit by famine. What could possibly go wrong? S
A Nice Day for a Walk    by Rick Novy
Price: $1.50 USD. 4540 words. Published on October 21, 2011. Fiction.
Caught half-way between stars, Deepspace-2 hurtled near the speed of light damaged and unable to flip over to decelerate. Will the injured crew be able to flip the ship manually, or will they pass their destination, doomed to speed forever into the vast
Come to Slaughter, Pig!    by Rick Novy
Price: $0.99 USD. 2480 words. Published on October 21, 2011. Fiction.
Healthy souls can fetch a fair price on the black market. A young wraith learns the ins and outs of stealing a soul off the hospital operating table, all while trying to avoid the touch of a “physical.”

Rick Novy’s tag cloud

alien point of view    aliens    alpha centauri    antarctica    deep space    emergency    ghost    hospital    invasion    mundane    occult    paranormal    postapocalyptic    proxima centauri    punch card computing    science fiction set in the past    scientific fraud    soul    space adventure    space aliens    space opera    space travel    sublight    sublight science fiction    time dilation    weather control