Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an award-winning science fiction author, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the Star Trek series.
He is also the inventor of the trackball telescope, a new system for making a telescope that is easy to aim and also tracks the stars. Additional information about the trackball can be found in the August, 2006 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, and on Oltion's website: http://www.sff.net/peo...
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Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an award-winning science fiction author, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the Star Trek series.
He is also the inventor of the trackball telescope, a new system for making a telescope that is easy to aim and also tracks the stars. Additional information about the trackball can be found in the August, 2006 issue of Sky and Telescope magazine, and on Oltion's website:
http://www.sff.net/people/j.oltion
His novels include Frame of Reference (1987), Abandon In Place (2000), The Getaway Special (2001), Paradise Passed (2004), and Anywhere But Here (2005)
His work has been compiled in the collections, Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume One (1993), Singing in the Rain, The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume Two (1998), and Twenty Questions (2003).
Oltion also contributed to Isaac Asimov's Robot City series with the books Alliance and Humanity (both in 1990).
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