Ralph Roberts(IV)
- Editor
- Producer
- Director
Most recently the author of CELTX: Open Source Screenwriting, Ralph
Roberts is a decorated Vietnam Veteran and worked with NASA during the
Apollo moon program, Ralph has been publishing science fiction stories
steadily since his first sale to Isaac Asmiov's SF in 1980. His story
"Logistics" appeared in Space Cadets, an anthology that premiered at
the 2006 World Science Fiction Convention and which Ralph attended,
signing over 300 copies. Roberts has written over 100 books for
national publishers along with thousands of articles and short stories.
His best sellers include the first U.S. book on computer viruses (which
resulted in several appearances on national TV) and Classic Cooking
With Coca-Cola, a cookbook that has been in continuous print for the
past 16 years and sold half a million copies. Roberts, as a publisher
has placed hundreds of titles into the national bookstore market. His
science fiction imprint, Farthest Star SF, does reprints (over 40
titles by multi Hugo and Nebula winner Mike Resnick) and original
science fiction. He is a longtime video producer with over 100 DVD
titles now for sale nationally on places such as Amazon.com, and has
also produced hundreds of hours of video for local TV in the Western
North Carolina area.