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Thomas Nevin Huber – Biography
Long Bio
Thomas Nevin Huber was born in the Pacific Northwest during the final years of World War II. Upon graduation from High School in 1962, he enlisted in the military where he operated his first computer system. He joined NCR corporation as a field service representative after being honorably discharged in 1965. During the next forty-five years, Tom worked in virtually every part of the computer industry, from engineering and design to marketing.
He married in 1966 and with his wife, Connie, raised four children. In 1981 they moved from Washington State to the Midwest and currently live in a northwestern suburb of Chicago. They enjoy their grandchildren, genealogy, and travel.
Tom’s career eventually led to writing, first as an editor for a computer magazine in 1980, and then as the lead technical writer for Heath Company and Zenith Data Systems’ computer publications.
During the late 1980’s Tom started to develop Star Spawn and wrote the first draft of the novel in only ninety days (May to July, 1990). After having several friends and associates read it, he discovered he had a larger story to tell. During the next few years he developed the characters, their stories and personalities, and the concept of the Star Spawn saga, and rewrote the story twice, retaining only the major themes, events, and technology.
A series of short stories, written and published electronically through an Electronic Publishing bulletin board network gave him the opportunity to write from various perspectives, testing different writing styles and techniques. As he continued to work on the first novel, he completed the second and third novels in the series, but all of these were far too large for a beginning writer to have published. While he was condensing the first two stories and splitting the third, he continued to write the saga's remaining stories, completing all but the last three novels before actively seeking a publisher.
What surprises him the most about Star Spawn since its inception in 1988 is its continued timelessness. Despite advancements, the technology still remains “twenty minutes into the future,” as he likes to put it, using a reference from the old Max Headroom television series.
The concept of the Star Spawn came from a thirty-year-old fantasy as he dreamed what it might be like to be aboard a star ship and witness its crew’s daily life and conflicts. He realized that as a Twentieth-Century man, he would be detained and then dropped off at the nearest base, never having a chance to truly observe life with the crew. He asked himself what kind of creature would he have to be to prevent that from happening? The answer was the Star Spawn, a race of beings that could absorb all forms of energy, and lived, for all practical purposes, outside the physical nature of the universe, giving them god-like powers. As he explored current scientific theories with respect to the nature of galaxies and from his studies of major world religious paths, he saw a natural connection. The result is the Star Spawn saga.Short Bio
As part of his 40-year career in computer technolgy, Tom spent twelve writing for Heathkit and Zenith Data Systems. In addition, he edited 80-US Journal for a year. He has authored a dozen short stories and his current Star Spawn saga now includes thirteen novels with work progressing on the fourteenth. Two additional novels are planned for the saga, along with another half-dozen loosely connected works.
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Original Biography September 07, 2000
Last updated February 26, 2008