B.A. Shields graduated in 1988 with high achievements in CAD, Advanced Computers, Robotics and a 4.0 in Logic. He then completed college courses in Basic, RPG-II and Advanced Programming. He worked for years as a systems designer and programmer as well as running his own computer business.
In 2007 B.A. Shields started a robotics community online which grew to over 3,000 members within a year and is still active today with members from all over the world.
B.A. Shields has authored works of fiction as well as technical manuals, religious books and over 200 theological essays. He is currently living in Northern Michigan with his wife and children where he pastors the local church he and his wife founded in 2006.
Personal Anecdotes: I began writing Pandemic Dawn in 2009 as a result of the continuing concerns I witnessed among people in general over the spread of yet another infectious disease, the "swine flu" or H1N1.
Ever since the Black Death of the fourteenth century, man has recognized how fragile we truly are, and how a simple organism too small to see with the naked eye, could destroy life as we know it.
When I imagined the government testing on the population, I recall Saddam Husain's testing on his own people which killed entire villages. I imagined the thoughts and fears of those who were helpless to a dictator's whim, and just moments before being destroyed, were washing clothes, cooking lunch for thier families, and going about their daily routines.
I imagine, if our government split into two groups, one who remains loyal to its populous, while the other conforming into an uncontrollable dictatorship.
One of my personal fears in the wake of any devastation, whether by virus, infectious disease or nuclear disaster, is the thought of my family. How would I protect them, take care of them, support them in a new society where all the rules of life have changed?
With no law, no government, no order, how would one survive?
Author B.A. Shields
