Author: J. L. Dobias

J. L. Dobias is a native of Michigan and makes his home there with his wife and their extended family. After receiving an associate degree in English, his career was sidetracked into hotel restaurant management. He has worked as engineering support and head of the electronics drafting and documentation department of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. Presently he’s lead CAD engineer, technical and engineering support, and IT director at Instrumented Sensor Technology; IST is an instrument maker with customers in shipping, aerospace, amusement parks, race cars, and accident reconstruction. His father introduced him and his brothers to science fiction at a very early age. Since then, he’s been an avid reader of science fiction for over fifty years. Cripple-Mode: Electric Touchéý is the second novel in the Cripple-Mode series.