I’m Matt Fraser, a science fiction writer, sailor, adventurer, and lifelong student of technology and exploration.

A quick note: If you’re looking for the psychic medium, you’ve wandered onto the wrong website. I’m the science fiction author. You’re welcome to stay, but I won’t be much help with readings or event tickets.

I’ve been writing stories since elementary school. There were childhood plays, teenage science fiction inspired a little too heavily by Heinlein, and more abandoned manuscripts than I care to count. Every attempt taught me something, even the spectacular failures. As a teenager, I submitted a short story to Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. The story owed rather too much to the greats, and the magazine rightly rejected it as unoriginal. Writers are supposed to take such things in stride, learn from them, and press on, but I admit this rejection crushed my teenage ego, and I did not write fiction again for a number of years.

Yet the bug never quite leaves one, does it?

Beyond the keyboard, I’ve traveled to all seven continents — including Antarctica, where I worked as an electrician for nearly four years, three of them through the long Antarctic winter. I’ve climbed Mount Rainier and several of Washington’s volcanic peaks, trekked the Khumbu Valley to Everest Base Camp, cycled the Pacific Coast from Canada to Mexico, explored Amazon tributaries deep into the Peruvian rainforest, photographed lions on the East African savanna, and sailed the cool waters of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, the lagoons of Tahiti and the Caribbean, and the azure bays of the Mediterranean.

Eventually the stories came back.

For more than three decades I built a career in information technology, eventually specializing in the architecture and support of SAP enterprise systems for a large urban school district. I loved solving difficult technical problems and helping to remove roadblocks for teachers in classrooms. After retiring from enterprise computing in 2026, I finally have the opportunity to devote much more time to writing, alongside sailing, hiking, traveling, volunteering in my local community, and occasionally disappearing down whatever research rabbit hole my next story requires. For the first time in many years, storytelling has moved from the margins to the center.

If you’ve read one of my stories, followed along with a work in progress, or simply wandered in out of curiosity, thank you for visiting. I hope you’ll leave a comment, say hello, or come back to see what I’m working on next.