Medron Pryde

Hello, my name is Medron Pryde.

I have been writing stories for most of my life.  I have focused mostly on short stories, though have always enjoyed making grand stories out of them.  I still have the notebooks I filled with art and story as a kid.  They are genuine treasures of my early creativity.

I grew up watching Battlestar Galactica (with Lorne Greene) , Buck Rogers, Star Trek, Star Wars, and every other science fiction show or movie I could track down.

I read Lord of the Rings (and the Silmarillion), The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the compiled works of Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and in general every other science fiction story I could track down.  Of course, the first books I found that I wanted to read were the Star Trek series of novels.  I would jealously horde my allowance, and the dimes (or quarters on a lucky week) that I got for doing work around the house or other places, for my monthly trip into the book store to buy another Star Trek book....or two...or three.

And then of course, I found the Star Wars comics by Marvel, and their Transformers comic.  Those two comics entranced me, and I currently own a complete collection of the Marvel Transformers comics.

Finally, I was introduced into BattleTech, a game of guys in big robots trying to kill other guys in big robots in a future where mankind fell, but was currently rebuilding and rediscovering what it lost.

And that is my bias.  I do not write dystopian futures, where there is no hope.  I write stories where there is hope, things worth fighting for, and people worth risking everything with.  Those are the stories I like to absorb, and so those are the stories I like to write.  These stories I have written my entire adult life, and most of my childhood.

My current project is the Jack of Harts series, in a universe where They made Contact with us.  And then Their enemies attacked us.  We stood back up.  We fought back.  We defended our right to exist in the universe.