About the Author

 

Robert Buettner’s best-selling debut novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel, was called the Post-9/11 generation’s Starship Troopers.

 

Orphanage, and other books in his Jason Wander series, have been republished by Science Fiction Book Club, and released by various publishers in Chinese, Czech, French, Russian, and Spanish. Robert was also nominated for the Quill Award as Best New Writer of 2005.

In March, 2011, Baen Books will release Overkill, Robert’s sixth novel, and first in his Orphan’s Legacy series, and in July, 2011 his seventh, Undercurrents.

Born in 1947 on Manhattan Island, he graduated with Honors in Geology from the College of Wooster in 1969, and received his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati in 1973. He served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer, a Director of the Southwestern Legal Foundation, and was a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology. He is a member of the Heinlein Society and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.

 As attorney of record in more than three thousand cases, he practiced in the U.S. federal courts, before courts and administrative tribunals in no fewer than thirteen states, and in five foreign countries. Six, if you count Louisiana.

Robert lives in Georgia with his family and more bikes than a grownup needs.