Robert G. Williscroft

Robert G. Williscroft is an American science-fiction author born in 1942 in Glasgow, Montana, who draws on a career as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer, deep-sea diver, and polar explorer-scientist. His fiction includes the Daedalus Files, the Starchild Saga, and the Oort Chronicles, hard science fiction grounded in his technical and military background, alongside naval-themed novels referencing his own service history. Williscroft has combined a career in undersea and polar science with writing science fiction that emphasizes plausible technology and firsthand knowledge of extreme environments.