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PJ Farrar writes speculative fiction and creative nonfiction, which is a fancy way of saying he makes things up and then insists some of it really happened.

He served in the US Navy for five years, then worked at whatever paid — line cook, pharmacy technician, a few unglamorous stints in law enforcement.

After taking his first college classes aboard the USS Pensacola / LSD-38 in 1987—then accumulating additional credits over the decades at various institutions of higher learning--PJ graduated from Colorado State University in 2023 with a BA in interdisciplinary liberal arts, minoring in creative writing.

His bookshelf runs to golden-age science fiction and hard-nosed adventure — Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, plus a soft spot for naval fiction that any sailor would recognize as barely disguised nostalgia. Tolkien and Twain share shelf space with pulpier fare.

His interests include oxymora, flights of fancy, and the slow, ongoing indignity of getting older. He's largely convinced that most of life's problems can be solved with better ideas, sharper sarcasm, or a cold beer.

This bio contains no actionable advice, life lessons, or hidden agenda. It is, in that sense, refreshingly useless.