Doug Beason

Doug Beason (born 1953 and credited as J. Douglas Beason when writing non-fiction), is a scientist and science fiction author. In 1995, he wrote When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale for the short-story collection Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina.

Beason is a 1977 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, and he later received a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of New Mexico. He has served as Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command and on the White House science staff for US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

As an author, Beason has written numerous sci-fi and thriller novels, non-fiction books, articles, and short stories. He has collaborated with Kevin J. Anderson and Ben Bova, been nominated for a Nebula Award for the novel Assemblers of Infinity, and been awarded the National Defense University President's "Strategic Vision" award. The book that garnered that award, Science and Technology Policy for the post-Cold War: A Case for Long-Term Research, was used as a textbook at the National War College and the USAF Air War College. In 2019, he released his seventeenth book.

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