As a physicist and computer scientist, Edward M. Lerner built high-tech systems for the Internet and for satellite-based Earth observation. "Probe", his first novel, is a techno-thriller that draws heavily upon that experience. His InterstellarNet novelettes, about the century-long evolution of a star-spanning, radio-based trading community, first appeared in "Analog and Artemis: Science and Fiction for a Space-Faring Age". Other fictional works, including the serialized novel "Survival Instinct", have also appeared in "Analog". Lerner is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America.