Wm Somers is retired and quietly living in central Florida. Although he’s never had to transit between parallel universes he has traveled extensively, having visited six of the seven continents of our world, save only Antarctica.
He is a dedicated fan of “hard” science fiction, especially the works of Jack McDevitt, Anne McCaffrey, Jack Vance and Arthur C Clarke. He also appreciates some fantasy, JRR Tolkien most of all. For a change of pace he reads some of the works of Clive Cussler (mostly the Fargo and Oregon series).
He has visited Egypt and spent a week on the Nile and crawled into a pyramid (they weren’t meant for someone six foot two). He spent a year living in Tokyo. In Australia he drove a car up the coastal road from Sydney to Brisbane and also to Katherine from Darwin in the outback. He’s been to Hong Kong, prior to the mainland takeover, to Seoul, Brussels, London, Managua, Cairo, Cartagena de Indies and Fiji. He’s visited the Panama Canal and Stonehenge and the old forts in St Augustine, Nassau and San Juan in Puerto Rico.
His interests include archeology, paleontology, history and astronomy. Past hobbies have included flying a private plane with an instrument rating. He's also enjoyed being involved with standardbred racing (harness horses) and even had a license to drive in qualifying races--without any success in his two tries.
His most interesting recent trips were his visits to Costa Rica and the Mayan ruins in Belize, which inspired this book.
