Igor Ljubuncic is a physicist by vocation, an IT nerd by profession, and a prolific author, with 21 published books. His portfolio covers technical books, novels in various fiction genres, and several anthologies, including a short story, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, nominated for the 2014 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History.

Igor comes with 20+ years of experience in the hi-tech industry, including medical, high-performance computing, data center, cloud, and hosting fields, with an emphasis on complex problem-solving and the scientific method. To date, Igor’s portfolio includes 15 patents, 21 aforementioned books, several open-source projects, numerous articles published in leading journals and magazines, presentations at prestigious international conferences, awards for advocacy, blogging and literature, and a few other party tricks besides.

Over the years, in addition to the short story nomination, Igor’s other fiction works have received favorable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Underground Book Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and SFFWorld. His technical book on problem-solving in high-performance computing is part of the computer science undergraduate studies curricula at several universities worldwide. It has also been translated into Mandarin.

In his free time, Igor runs a popular science and technology blog, www.dedoimedo.com, drives fast cars on racetracks, does mean impressions of celebrities, and sings in a wide range of languages from Finnish to Old Norse to Albanian, Polish, Spanish, and many others.

For more on his written works, please check the Books and Stories sections of this site.

You can also reach Igor at webmaster at dedoimedo dot com.

Cheers!