The Personal Web Pages of Chris Gerrib

• Information, including reviews, about my science fiction novel The Mars Run, click here.
• More about me personally, including a  biography and pictures, click here.
• Links to sites I find interesting, click here.
• My LiveJournal blog
• To contact me, send an email to Cgerrib (at) comcast (dot) net.

Introductions

As you probably guessed, I would love to go to Mars.  Always have.  When I was a little boy, growing up in a small and (at the time) terribly boring little town in Illinois, one of my favorite escapes was riding my bike to the local library and devouring all their books on space.  I memorized one, a Werner Von Braun / Disney collaboration, which was full of cool pictures of cigar-shaped rockets.  To this day I can still see the pictures. 

But all small boys grow up, and I finally decided that going to Mars wasn't in the cards.  When I made that decision, the chances of anybody getting to Mars in my lifetime seemed pretty slim.  I take the Chicago Tribune, and Eric Zorn, one of their columnists, was running a "SIN club."  SIN stood for "someday is now" and the concept was simple - all those things you were going to do "someday" (run a marathon, write a book) you should do now.  I didn't formally join the club, but decided that he had a point.  Out of this was born my first book, The Mars Run. 

Like the title suggests, it's a story about a journey to Mars.  Not a first-time voyage of exploration, but a "routine" trip.  Of course, the story would be terribly boring if it was truly routine, so this one goes awry.  After I finished it, I bundled it up and shipped it off to a publisher, and waited eagerly by the mailbox.  Well, I wasn't that naive - I knew getting published was tough.

Tough ain't the word for it.  Suffice it to say, The Mars Run has not found a publisher.  Nor has any of my other work.  So, while I keep writing, I've decided to do a little self-publishing. 

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