J Randall Christopher

Heavily influenced by science fiction at a young age, J. Randall Christopher was often taken to the movies by his older brother, beginning when Randall was only six years old. The second movie Randall ever watched was the Battle in Outer Space, a 1959 movie adapted from a story by Jojiro Okami, who was an aeronautical engineer and test pilot at the time of the writing. Captivated by the imagery and display of technology in this foreign film, this love of science fiction was also rewarded by such films as 2001-A Space Odyssey in 1968, Star Wars in 1977 and the television show Star Trek, the original series. Thank you, Gene Roddenberry. Other significant influences include H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Ray Bradburry and many other marvelous stories conveyed in print, television and the movies. There were many favorites, too, many to list here that have contributed to the author’s imagination. These influences along with his training as an architect is the foundation on which the story of this debut novel is built. A labor of love, HIVE is a story about a nuclear physicist who has a desire to develop an alternate form of energy and propulsion that can benefit all of mankind.