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Curriculum Vitae — Paul Milford Muller Our Senior Partner (appointed in September 2008) in the Aarau Literary Agency is an award winning ex-NASA “earthbound” co-navigator of Apollo to the moon, consultant to senior management in information technologies (60 UK consultancies), and was the original proposing and founding director of Sage Software Plc, still a major player today in the UK and Europe. 1937 – Born 30 September, Los Angeles, California. 1955 – MacNeel Pierce full scholarship to University of choice as one of 3 best graduates selected from the entire Los Angeles High School system. 1962 – BA degrees in Mathematics and History, General Teaching Credential, U. of California. 1963 – High School teacher of Mathematics, California. 1966 – 1977 NASA Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Spacecraft Navigation Division: group supervisor, NASA project manager, NASA experimenter. 1970 – Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, proposed by Prof. Harold Urey. 1971 – NASA exceptional scientific achievement awards: Navigation of Apollo to the moon; Design and Development of the Matrix Operations Program System. 1971 – Joint recipient (with W L Sjogren) both of JPL: Magellanic Premium Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society, for discovery of the lunar MASCONS, and exemplary contributions to navigation of Apollo to the moon. Often styled the “Nobel Prize” for navigation, it has been awarded every five years or so since American revolutionary times, funded by Magellan’s great grandson, www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/magellanic. 1975 – PhD in Astronomy and Geophysics, earned as senior guest member of staff, 1973-75, University of Newcastle upon Tyne: “An Analysis of the Ancient Astronomical Observations with Implications for Geophysics and Cosmology”. Also published as a book for placement in major libraries under a NASA grant, with Leverhulme and EC fellowship support. 1979 – Original proposing and founding director of Sage Software Plc (1979), which became and remains (www.sage.co.uk) a major UK software company. He served as Technical Director to 1985, with co-brief as principal negotiator, including buyout negotiations with EMI. 1977 – 2002 Senior consultant to management involving computer technology, especially human-computer ‘interfaces’ with related changeover, training and documentation issues. Publications: over 50 papers in the refereed scientific literature, 60 significant consultant’s reports (mostly in the UK), public lecturer, numerous letters to editors, and 4 novels completed and one nonfiction (Consciousness and our Essential Mortality). Flight of the Marbles ISBN 1-904754-45-7 was originally published under contract from the Greek government for presentation on a stand at the Thessaloniki Book Fair, spring of 2004, in honor of the Olympic Games: fictional theft of the Elgin (Parthenon) Marbles from the British Museum in an attempt to effect their repatriation to Greece. (See below) 2001 – Cofounder and partner in the Sunflower Literary Agency. 2008 – Senior Partner Sunflower Literary Agency UK (now Aarau Literary Agency). Paul Muller heads our specialized, decentralized, internet-serviced, international agency from his home in the highlands of Thailand. |
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SENIOR PARTNER (independently vetted and circulated writing) Flight of the Marbles: Re-edited 2nd edition of published 1st edition: ISBN: 1–904754–45–7. A serious ‘take’ on lifting the Elgin marbles from the British Museum and returning them to Athens. This previously written novel was published under a contract from the Greek government and given out on a stand at the Thessaloniki Cultural Faire in honor of the 2004 Olympic Games at Athens, to which event the book was dedicated. It garnered considerable attention at the time. Helena Katsis (43) quits as a top spy for Greek Intelligence but her days of intrigue are not over: she has conceived an audacious plot—to lift the Parthenon (Elgin) Marbles from the British Museum and fly them home. Can she expect the Greek PM to put his neck on the line? Will her three young LSE and London student colleagues risk theirs? Can she gain the support of her ex-lover Spiros as Greece’s number one eminence grise? Has the British PM secretly ordered their plane shot down? Greek fighters are on the way to a Mediterranean dogfight. Or is there a bizarre twist in her master plan that can still win the day? ‘Intriguing rarity: an exciting cultural and romantic thriller. Well researched and convincing heist: it could work for real.’ Greek Ministry of Culture, attaché. 120,000 words. Suicide Incorporated is a bizarre, twisted and erotic psychological thriller for jaded adults. The characterizations are intense and interpersonal subplots unwind during the 2 weeks. The founding psychiatrist of a charitable clinic specializing in suicidal patients undergoes a personality split and acquires a deeply driven need to assist the suicides of patients who are desperate but can’t do it themselves. Others push this into a profitable business of selling spectator places to ‘assisted suicides’ with cannibalistic overtones. The need to feed this monster leads to setting up patients and raw kidnapping. A female African American Attorney pressures the LAPD to reopen the case of her missing daughter. She turns detective on a lead to Paris, seducing a suspect Frenchman and they gain entry to an event via a journey through the world’s premier sex-club. Unwarned, at the cusp of their first witnessed suicide, he backs Alicia’s play and they bust the operation. During a wild round-the-world weekend chase, they attend and do the same at the LA ‘arena’ from the inside, the only practical solution because they are all wired to self-destruct. A close friend is an impending victim in Bangkok. In a final twist from difficulties in reaching Bangkok in time, the President of the United States lends a little back-room help—but will even this be enough? 120,000 words. A sequel is in development. YOUNG ADULT Tesseract House written in the 70s, nearly published by Little Brown in 1978, represented by the Leslie Flood S-F agency in London 1980-85, re-edited 2009. Kristy and Karl, a couple (15, 17) from Arcata, California, and a ‘sophisticated lady’ (16) with her wild sister (12) from SF, discover an impossible building hidden in the tall redwoods high on the coastal hills: it has one room as seen from outside but 8 mirrored rooms inside. They are sucked into a bizarre time travel adventure by an equally youthful, out of control alien in the form of a ball of energy with an irascible personality to match. It has been foretold to him (alone) that only the four in one and one in four can counter the attack on his home planet. Each of the four has a key role to play in the battles, ranging from scenes out of a ‘Lord of the Rings’, to a hyper-drive spaceship diving into a black hole. Kristy transforms into an energy alien and must willingly sacrifice herself for the others. 90,000 words. NONFICTION Consciousness and our Essential Human Mortality is a fresh approach to this slippery subject using pure logical thought experiments in the tradition of Euclid, Newton, and Arthur C Clarke, rather than either applied science or philosophy. One central result is a proof of the absolute mortality of our consciousness (the me, myself, and I of our awareness). Our consciousness is revealed to have no more existence in the physical world than an idea or thought, but we think it does and that, apparently, is enough (Descartes updated). The human brain is a digital computer (a fact often misunderstood). We are the operation of the computer program running in that brain! The author is a noted, major award winning, ex-NASA retired PhD in physics with a strong background in the history of science and philosophy. 70,000 words. |
*Spelled Aarau, pronounced ‘Arrow’*
Established 2001, Listed in Macmillan Writer’s Handbook 2003– as ‘Sunflower’, 2011– Aarau Literary Agency,
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