Paul Gilster is a writer specializing in technology and its implications. He is the author of seven books including this newest: Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning for Interstellar Exploration (Copernicus, 2005), a non-fiction study of the technologies that may one day make it possible to send a probe to the nearest star. Gilster has contributed frequently to numerous technology and business magazines, and has published essays, feature stories, reviews and fiction in a wide range of publications both in and out of the technology field. For the past seventeen years, he has written the weekly “Computer Focus” column,
which now appears in The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC).