Jeb Kinnison

Jeb Kinnison grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, not far from Liberty Jail, where Joseph Smith and other Mormons were jailed in 1839-40 before fleeing to Illinois. He discovered science fiction in second grade, starting with Tom Swift books and quickly moving to Heinlein juveniles and adult science fiction. He studied computer and cognitive science at MIT and wrote programs modeling the behavior of simulated stock traders and the population dynamics of economic agents. Later he did supercomputer...See more

Jeb Kinnison grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, not far from Liberty Jail, where Joseph Smith and other Mormons were jailed in 1839-40 before fleeing to Illinois. He discovered science fiction in second grade, starting with Tom Swift books and quickly moving to Heinlein juveniles and adult science fiction. He studied computer and cognitive science at MIT and wrote programs modeling the behavior of simulated stock traders and the population dynamics of economic agents. Later he did supercomputer work at a think tank that developed parts of the early Internet (where the engineer who decided on '@' as the separator for email addresses worked down the hall.) Since then, he has had several careers-real estate development, financial advising, and counselling. He retired from financial advising a few years ago and has done some work in energy conservation and relationship issues. He is known for his popular books on attachment types and began writing science fiction with the Substrate Wars series. See less