ROBERTO SCRIBNER

Why am I writing this series? I'm exploring love between the traumatized, found family, the heroism of the damned, what it means to fight for an idea in the modern world, and the meaning of hope in a time when that emotion is in short supply.

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I am a Brazilian-American Brooklyn boy, husband, stay-at-home dad, Wesleyan University grad, retired officer of Marines, and veteran of five combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan living in Virginia near Quantico.

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I'd love to hear from you! Go to the "Contact" page and drop me a line via e-mail or the contact form. 

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When I'm not writing I do lots and lots of laundry. Two kids make piles of the stuff. I also hike and camp the mountains of Virginia, gravel bike, and sea kayak. I'm an avid student of history, military and otherwise, and read classic science fiction and fantasy every chance I get.

 

What I'm reading to my kids right now: Rama Revealed

 

Some of my favorite books or essays (in no particular order):

 

• "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis

• "Stillwell and the American Experience in China" by Barbara W. Tuchman

• "Self-Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende

• "Rules for Radicals" by Saul D. Alinsky

• "Sandman" Series, by Neil Gaiman

• The "Hornblower" Series by C.S. Forester

• "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon

• "Peter the Great" by Robert K. Massie

• "V for Vendetta", by Alan Moore

• The "Rama" series by Arthur C. Clarke

• "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein

• "1491" by Charles C. Mann

• "Eccentric Orbits", by John Bloom

• ​ "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

• "Civil War" series by Shelby Foote

• "The Odyssey" by Homer (Lattimore translation)

• The "Roosevelt" Series by Edmund Morris

• "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline

• "Boyd" by Robert Coram

• "Wellington" by Rory Muir

• "Bolivar" by Marie Arana

• "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card

• "The Campaigns of Napoleon" by David G. Chandler

• "A Journey to the Center of the Earth" by Jules Verne