Yesterday, @bex-dk and @rhondak took time out from The Writers' Block to coach me on the abstruse art of getting photos to download in a steemit post. Today, I'm experimenting with what I learned. Alas: I can get the copypaste from the web to work (however illegally), but how to resize photos?
As book critic for Perihelion Science Fiction, I was asked to review novels I might never have found otherwise. Three authors in particular loom large on my list of favorites, and not just because they reply to my emails.
Now I'm curious to see how many Steemians, offhand, would recognize them. Later, I'll ID them.
#1 - Scotland author, violinist, TED talks speaker, physician
#2 - Italian born, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, expert in genetics*, fabulous photographer
#3 - UK author, hospital pathologist, violinist
I'd love to meet fellow fans of my favorite authors. Give me a hollar if you already know these geniuses!
p.s.
Author (1) is a practising doctor who's worked in Scotland, in Australia with the Flying Doctors service and in a field hospital in the desert
Author (2), in addition to riveting science fiction, writes mind-blowing stuff like this:
Epitope-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes cross-recognize mutant simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) sequences but fail to contain very early evolution and eventual fixation of epitope escape mutations during SIV infection. Cale EM, Hraber P, G-----i EE, Fischer W, Bhattacharya T, Leitner T, Yeh WW, Gleasner C, Green LD, Han CS, Korber B, Letvin NL. J Virol. 2011 Apr;85(8):3746-57. Epub 2011 Feb 9. PMID: 21307185
Author (3) has a day job that lends itself to some of the lurid and horrific scenes in his science fiction:
I used to perform autopsies for the Coroner until a few years back (stopped when they moved the mortuary across town) - so I guess some of the macabre from my day job crept into my literary output! Grist(le) to the mill, maybe...