Brad Ashmore has been an engineer, writer, and inventor of several patents… not necessarily in that order. His writing influences draw from both sci-fi and the absurd. He has two children and lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and a bad cat. Brad is a 2020 indieBRAG award winner. He is also published in the online journal “Bewildering Stories”. He writes in a range of themes in various genres: Soft sci-fi, humor, absurd, or literary fiction. He prefers “soft” to “hard” sci-fi to take a break from the quantitative rigor of engineering. Find out more at UnexpectedBooks.com.