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Short Bio
Arnold J. Inzko lived in Austria during the first eighteen years of his life. He traveled to Italy, to Germany, to France, to England and lives now in the USA. He attended nine schools in the countries mentioned. He received his primary education in Austria and he earned a degree in mechanical engineering in the USA. In the United States, he served 2 years in the Army and received an honorable discharge. Then he worked mostly as manager at GE, TRW, Textron and Cerro Metal. After his retirement, he was restless. He obtained a teaching job at South Hills School of Business and Technology, in State College, PA, teaching machine tool programming, drafting, machine technology and he helped set up numerous other engineering courses. During this time he started to write Sci-fi novels and hasn't stopped since.
Author’s Notes
Where do my ideas for novels come from? Some ideas come from old notes. Other ideas come from newscasts, artist’s drawings, my children, my wife, actual occurrences in the neighborhood, internet and even from newspapers, but very rarely.
“How is it possible that during the last one hundred year we have advanced technologically so quickly when it took Earthlings 6,000 years to find an industrious use for the wheel?” This question sparked Ethos Returned and Messengers from the Past
The idea for writing Slave Market came from a television newscast. Natalee Holloway was missing. She disappeared during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country. I immediately assumed that someone kidnapped her and sold her into slavery. Right or wrong, based on this assumption and on the reality that white slavery still exists today, I went on the internet and typed ‘White slavery’. I got 2,060,000 hits. “Wow”. I started writing and six months later the novel was finished.
Recently I deliberated, “Where did we come from?” The Siblings’ Legacy was my answer to that question.
“What is cyberspace?” That question triggered Quintessence.
Scanning images on the internet, I found an interesting picture, conceived by an artist. It was his interpretation of Parallel Worlds. Again, I tried the internet. This time I got 126,937 hits. I couldn’t turn away from so much information, written by so many people. Eureka! I started writing, and didn’t stop until I was finished. I called this one Alien Spaces in Similar Places.
Scam Artists are another source for my books. See my latest and shortest book, The Inheritance.
To find facts today, I will not travel all over the world with pencil, paper, tape recorder and camera to find and record facts. It's all on the internet, including sophisticated internet scams and the author will be capitalizing on it next.
BELATED OBSERVATION
Though I was born in Austria, I am now an American. I never let people forget that and I tell them, “I am an Austrian-American and by definition, this places me in a minority group.” When I came to the United States, I quickly realized that it would be too demanding for me to survive in the USA by adhering to European and old-fashioned mannerisms. It was important to me to adapt to American customs and practices. I needed to blend in and assimilate. If I didn’t, I might be vulnerable to American crudities and I might be labeled as a foreign oddity, wearing stupid loafers, feet covered with short socks, wearing suites made in Yugoslavia and in Summer wearing shorts with my balls hanging out on the left side. I noticed that my Austrian accent didn’t appear to be a disadvantage to me. (It wasn’t for Arnold Schwarzenegger). On the contrary, later in the engineering field, it seemed to be beneficial to me in many instances.