I'm Yinzhe and I am currently working as a firmware engineer at IBM, Austin. I've been a fan of Science Fiction since my youth and I particularly enjoy Hard Sci-Fi. I started writing Hard Sci-Fi stories... a very long time ago and I've been busy so I basically did little to no writing during my days as an EE undergrad.

Current Project:

SETI project is dead in the water. Finished the Loch Ness story four years ago (Loched Up) but might do one regarding a sea serpent in the near future. Jovian Chronicles is ... well, in development hell. Turns out I don't have the endurance for novellas so Lady Luck, which is supposed to be one of the first stories in the series, is getting a lot of lousy luck.

I am trying to pick up the pieces after a two year lapse by starting out with short hard sci-fi stories with simple premises. Currently trying to force myself to finish one about a space fleet engaging a submersible fleet. Another one about dog-fights on Venus is still in the work (development hell... ahem).

Once I get the steam going I will try and write a more personal story on the plight of a space navy weapons officer's attempt to adjust to life on earth. Perhaps I could include it as a part of the Jovian Chronicles.

I am also thinking about venturing into historical fictions and light-hearted superhero comic parodies. The idea I have for historical fiction will be a piece set during Song China called the "Mask of Lanling", which will concern General Di Qing, a well-regarded national hero who worked his way up from a mere soldier. As for the superhero parody, I am thinking about a series on Captain Metro, a superhero with metro bus based super powers. It might just be insane enough to work.

Influences:

Holy Trinity of the Golden Age of Scifi (Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, in no particular order)

Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Ray Bradbury, Hal Clement, H.P. Lovecraft.

Favorite Director: Stanley Kubrick (for flipping the bird in the face of pretentious film critics and getting away with it)

Favorite Film of all time: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Other Films I enjoyed: Brazil, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, They Live, The Dark Knight, etc.

Favorite book series: Foundation Trilogy

Favorite Comedian: Jack Chick (more laughs in a single panel than the last six Eddy Murphy movies combined)

Other favorite comedians: Mel Brooks, Leslie Nielsen before low brow films ruined his career.