Peter Arthur

Peter Arthur was born in Australia where he lived until age 17. At that time his family came to the United States. He spent his last year of high school at Granite High in Salt Lake City. In '79 he moved to Los Angeles. Over the ensuing years he worked as a workers comp fraud investigator and other jobs until he finally settled on sales. Mr Arthur has been on the road as a traveling salesman for many years and had many adventures while making a living. He has traveled to all the lower 48 and Hawaii at one time or another. In 1988 Peter had a very vivid dream. Soon after he decided to write a book based on this vision of a profoundly different and unique way of life. The content of the dream became the basis for the interstellar culture called the "Directory of Stars and Planets" or more simply the Directory. After the decision to write a novel Peter set out on a long journey through classic literature. His goal was to learn what he could from the best authors in the world by reading their works. He returned to his first love, Science Fiction, and discovered that even though the genre was sometimes out-shone in pure writing quality SciFi still held a wide margin for its creativity.