For nearly the next two years, he wrote full time and garnered his first few publications writing as James A. In 1996, he started writing with a passion.

Towards the end of that time, already a champion historical wargamer, he retired from competition and decided to focus on his love of writing. From that time on, he traveled extensively, throughout Europe and Africa. Nine months later, he transferred for work to London.

A short time before handing in his dissertation, he realized that academia wasn't going to fulfill his ambitions and he stepped out into the workforce, joining a couple of IT companies in succession, until he found one that stuck. Taking up a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his Doctorate, he transferred to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, claiming from the start that his degree was simply practice to write large, cogent volumes of material.

There he discovered History and Philosophy of Science, which was to become his major and eventually, his Honours Degree. Starting a BSc in Biochemistry in Sydney, he changed to a BSc Psych, then transferred to the University of Wollongong to do a BA Psych. His first expedition was to Istanbul in 1969, where he lived for two years, and then later, in 1973 to Cambridge for a year. Jay Caselberg was born in a country town in Australia and then traveled extensively while growing up.

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There is a sense in the series that almost anything can happen, and can be explained. This context most interestingly includes a city described in terms which combine Virtual Reality and Nanotechnology. In Wyrmhole, a mysteriously evacuated mining planet turns out to be the focus of complex interstellar corporation villainies Metal Sky rather more traditionally puts Stein into problematic relations with a largish Mean Streets cast, the claustrophobia of this generic choice being loosened by the uncertainties imported by the overall sf context. His Jack Stein sequence – comprising Wyrmhole ( 2003), Metal Sky ( 2004), The Star Table ( 2005) and Wall of Mirrors ( 2006) – places its noir detective into various venues requiring the use of his Psi Powers to solve crimes. Both his surnames are real – the first being Caselberg on remarriage his mother took the name of Hartley – though he now uses Caselberg only. Working name of Australian author James Caselberg (1958- ), mainly resident in the UK from the 1980s he began publishing work of genre interest with 'Photosynthesis' for The Pedestal Magazine in 2001 as by James A Hartley.

Metal Sky by Jay Caselberg