Robert Sells has taught physics for over forty years, but he has been a storyteller for over half a century, entertaining children, grandchildren, and students.  He has written the award-winning novel, Return of the White Deer, historical fiction, and Revelations, an award-winning science fiction novel. He lives with his wife, Dale, in the idyllic village of Geneseo, New York with three attentive dogs who are uncritical sounding boards for his new stories.  He is intrigued by blackjack and history, in love with Disney and writing, and amused by religion and politics.

“Years ago, I gave a lecture on evolution. What, I pondered, would be the next step? Not carbon-based biological evolution but silicon ‘life’. A conscious computer has considerable advantages over mortal man. Later this idea emerged as the exciting and disturbing story called Reap the Whirlwind, my most recent novel.”