{"product_id":"9781477145289","title":"Imaginings: Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eDean Warren has had a distinguished and varied career.  As a young veteran of the Bikini Atom bomb tests, he attended UCLA, The London School of Economics, and Harvard.  While in London, he and two other graduate students drove from London to New Delhi, India.  Later, he sold Lockheed Aircraft in Southwest Asia and was promoted to Director of Marketing for Lockheed International.  The State Department then lured him to run Program Planning for the Agency of International Development.  He finished his working career as Director of Strategic Planning for Lockheed Martin Electronics and Missiles Group in Orlando, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis experiences and writing skills have led him in retirement to publish illustrated memoirs of his nuclear and car trip adventures, as well as five science fiction, speculative novels.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey have also produced short stories, from which collection he has selected twenty four.  They all involve modern issues and propose adventurous solutions.  They include:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe clash of science with culture \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe gender war \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emeans of avoiding the ills of age and death \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe future of mankind \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edeployment of Star Wars \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe politics of a space empire \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003efacing the disasters brought by global warming \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edeath \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edealing with the invasion of aliens \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egenetic hybridization \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epeacemaking \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einventing faster than light travel \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esettling a new planet \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecorporate behavior \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea Palestine solution  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130768408816,"sku":"9781477145289","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781477145289_p0.jpg?v=1763611855","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781477145289","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}