Roger Bourke White Jr.

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Summary

• Published author: four science books, one technical book, five hard SF books, magazine columnist, blogger
• MIT graduate in Chemical Engineering, U of Phoenix MBA
• two 20 minute movies directed: Twist of the Tool a comedy about Kirk and Spock landing at MIT, and an instruction video on using a new style computer terminal
• wrote and starred in several instructional videos about evolution (here's one)
• Four times honorable mention winner in L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest
• Has many feature-length movie scripts ready for consideration -- most in SF and one quirky romance
• Has many shorter scripts ready for consideration -- science, SF and quirky romance

What's distinctive about Roger Bourke White Jr. stories?

What to look for when you are reading these: Roger's stories have a distinct tone. Roger is careful that his worlds are internally consistent, and that his characters don't act like fools in their worlds. This means his characters develop differently from those in conventional confrontation scripts, the characters are cooperative rather than confrontive, they don't make silly mistakes, and the world they move through doesn't make silly mistakes, either!

The result: these stories are very fun, and very different. They are fresh!

What is available now

Here are four of Roger's feature length movie scripts:

• Where does the 500 Pound Alien Sleep? -- (102 pages, here is a treatment) A science fiction story about landing on a planet that has really scary aliens living on it. The easy-to-see scary aliens are the robots that now control the planet and kill every surface animal they find that's bigger than a cat. The really, really scary aliens are the sneaky creatures that are about to take the planet away from the robots! The human crew that comes to this world has to survive dealing with both.
• The Lich -- (109 pages, here is a treatment) A fantasy story about Baron Rostov, the magic using ruler of a valley in the Balkan peninsula in the 1880's. Baron Rostov mixes clever magic, science and psychology to face a powerful and deadly lich bent on restoring an evil city.
• Three Ladies and the Dragon -- (103 pages, here is a treatment) A fantasy story about Baron Rostov, the magic using ruler of a valley in the Balkan peninsula. Baron Rostov mixes clever magic, science and psychology to rescue three maidens from a dragon so old, and powerful that she's part of a "long ago, when the earth was young"-story. (This is part of the seven part Baron Rostov series.)
• Community Service (119 pages, here is a treatment) A quirky romance story. Three college coed freshmen are arrested for antiwar protesting. They can pay a fine, or spend a week doing community service with one of the college's Sociology professors. He has in mind having them participate in a radical sociology experiment. For a week, the professor teaches them how to serve their community... by growing their instinct for romantic love! His theory: when romantic love grows, the ladies will be happier, their boyfriends/husbands-to-be will be happier, and that will make the whole community better off. Does the theory prove itself? In spades! Does Ms. Evelyn think it should succeed? Not on your life!

Roger also has 14 half-hour and 5 hour-long science fiction and fantasy short features, 1 extra-long science fiction feature (171 pages), 11 half hour and two full hour quirky romance features, and 8 20-minute science stories ready to go. See a list here.

All of these are available as published novels, short stories and articles, as well. (See my book list)

Other Fun Facts about Roger Bourke White Jr.

• nephew of Margaret Bourke-White, photographer for Life magazine, and an accomplished photographer himself
• helped engineer the Space Shuttle
• climbed 14,000 foot peaks in the Colorado Rockies, and bicycled from Boston to Minnesota
• has a commercial pilot's licence with an IFR rating
• one of the first one hundred people to play Dungeons and Dragons

History

Roger is a careful observer of the human condition, technology and history, and this is what he writes about.

He paid his dues, but he paid them in interesting ways.

• He never drove big rigs, but he drove the creation of the PC-LAN industry by working for Novell as it created that industry.
• He was never a waiter, but he served people as a computer store owner.
• He never "did time", but he did talk personally to J. Edgar Hoover.

Roger Bourke White Jr.'s passion is internally consistent story telling. He hates it when a man is all alone in the big city... and that city has not burned to the ground for lack of a fire department. He hates it when the insane diseased humans chasing him in said big city are alive, even though they haven't eaten for three years. Roger won't tolerate these kinds of mistakes in his stories. (Here are some reviews Roger has written of other movies.)

The result of his passion is very different stories, but still very exciting because, most of all, Roger loves telling a good story.

Here is a select list of Roger Bourke White Jr.'s publications.

Here is more information on Roger's formal education,
professional experience, and certifications.

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