Scooter Duff

Willis P. "Scooter" Duff, Jr.

Biographically speaking, I am so humble, I can't see that anyone is all that interested my my life, even though it has been a total hoot, full of unlikely adventures, towering accomplishments and fleeting moments of ecstasy. But humbly, all that.

I'd guess readers of the Amazon Author Central feature are more interested in the books than the authors, although I read Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac" voraciously. Anyway, here is a compact overview of my books.

Book 1, A Reluctant God, is the kind of hard science fiction I read from the time he was ten, and makes predictions ("extrapolations") on all kinds of stuff: The future of A.I., space propulsion systems, future archeology, the ultimate badness, cluster creatures, quantum computing, APs (artificial personalities),power sources from inter-universe branes, the wisdom of crowds, life on gas giants... oh the list goes on.

Book 2, MIZ, involves telepathic super lions, the hybridization of humans, snakes that can swallow a cow, and one lost-in-deep-time nice guy electrical engineer, perhaps an alter-ego for Scooter.

Then came Book 3, GUT 4.0, with two novellas and four short stories. All the tales revolve around the human microbiome, much in the medical and health news these days. In GUT, they become sentient, conscious and assume a "second brain" role in their hosts. The book took first place for sci-fi in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards.

Book 4, LUCAS 2.0, fairly hard sci-fi set in 2030. The co-protagonist is a superintelligence that is completely conscious AI who has the power to constantly upgrade himself, thus become super. The subtitle is "Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again," which sort of captures the core of the story. I'm working on the second book (Book 5!) in what may be a three-book series if I live long enough.

Personal aside, I intend to live long enough. Life extension ("health span extension" these days) is featured in two of the books, and I believe some of my own fiction.

There you go!