NOTES OF A PATENT ATTORNEY

The Wally Mason Stories

by Brian C. Coad


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 05/02/2004

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 304
ISBN : 9781414042817

About the Book

NOTES OF A PATENT ATTORNEY: The Wally Mason Stories.

Author and metallurgist Brian C. Coad, who worked closely with several Patent Attorneys, reckons they perform essential mid-wife duties, over-seeing the birth of the new technology on which our prosperity depends. Wally Mason, protagonist and narrator of these collected works, might add that PAs do more for us than any other class of lawyers.

Since early in his career, Wally Mason, PA to General Business Inc., a manufacturing conglomerate, published stories turning on inventions, inventors, and human relations. In DEFENSE, he notes that corporate executives generally encouraged him. Now retired, he continues to write. Many of his stories have appeared in ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT MAGAZINE.

Mason's ONE BILLION DOLLARS introduces a dying billionaire who wants his remains dispatched to a space grave beyond the Milky Way. HUMAN LIVES concerns an employee who seeks a cure for work-related cancers. HURRICANE ZOSIE features a disgruntled Scottish inventor who parlays his discontent into a TV career. Wally's post-retirement story, QUALITY SPRIGS, is about making a business of human cloning.

Genre-wise, these stories fit the category HARD SCIENCE FICTION, although Wally might claim that they are MAINSTREAM. Few similar works have been published since Neville Shute and Nigel Balchin were writing in the 1930s.


About the Author

Cornish-born metallurgist Brian C. Coad worked on aerospace and electronic materials for several Fortune Five Hundred companies, his corporate titles ranging from Project Engineer, to R and D Director, to Director of Overseas Operations. Occasionally, he undertook high level odd jobs, such as writing speeches for a Division President, and performing liaison duties with out-sourced Patent Attorneys. Coad's life-long interest in writing began when, at age eleven, he won an English class prize for writing a Christmas carol. His hard science fiction stories appear in leading SF magazines. He also publishes poems, occasional op-ed pieces, and angry letters mailed to the local newspapers. His novel, WALLY MASON'S ADVENTURES IN THE

PATENT TRADE, is also available from 1st Books Library.