Name: Tommy Micro
Gender: Male
Occupation: Writer and self-described mystery archeologist.
Date of birth: Year of the Ox.
Residence: Expatriate Chinese-American currently living in Tokyo, Japan with tele-presence in Hong Kong, and New York.
Hobbies: Golf, gambling, soccer, and researching mysteries.

Appearance: Of mixed parentage, Tommy combines the Asian features of his father with those of his blond American mother in an eclectic style. He’s usually dressed casually in polos and khakis, though he claims to own an undefined number of suits that will be used at some future occasion. Usually has a book on his person stuffed in a pocket and carries a signed edition of Stephen King’s Danse Macabre when traveling.

Known powers: Enhanced physical characteristics and mental acuity. To the surprise of most who know him, Tommy is a first rate forensics man and investigative prodigy. A prolific writer of short stories and popular articles, mainly on novas and how they interact with the world around them, he seems to have an almost preternatural sense of motivation and character that serves him well in the real world as well as in the written works he creates.

Secrets: Tommy is a powerful psychometrist (retrocog), able to witness events through the eyes of someone present. This is not always as useful as it sounds. When writing Who Owns the Night?, Tommy spent most of his research efforts to obtain tangible evidence to back up what he already knew to be true.

Dust jacket bio:

Tommy Micro is from Nevada, the world’s greatest expert on Pachinko, a damn fine soccer player, and a nova in that order. When not funneling his ill-gotten gains into the steel ball music of the legalized Japanese gambling industry or at the bottom of a field pile up, he spends his time researching the secret history of the world for mysterious organizations involved in a covert war against the power and thrones of the heavenly choir.

Currently he is in disgrace for reasons not clearly understood. Meanwhile he bides his time hiding in Japan accompanied by his dangerously alluring girlfriend. Also involved in a fiendish cabal are three selfish cats and a grumpy self aware computer with a superiority complex. None of whom will lift a finger to save him when the ninjas clans arrive to settle an old score. While awaiting this justifiably bloody retribution, he spends his time training to defend himself with an orbital steel katana costing more than you make in a life time and writing the memoirs of his life as a diplomat and gentleman spy.

Major Bibliography:

Micro, T. [2014]. Not for Love, Nor Money. A tour of the possibilities of the future posited in a voice alternating between reasoned compassion and outrageous skepticism. The author’s scathing view of possible future trends as filtered through seven primary perspectives ranging from the Idealist to Embittered Pessimist, builds the respective cases on the state of the modern world before launching the reader on a sometimes frightening but always irreverent ride to showcase outcomes when the perspectives inevitably collide.

Micro, T. [2014]. Who Owns the Night? documents the life and times of a vigilante figure in the early 20th century; the author examines the forces that could lead a man to craft an alter-ego as a weapon to wage single minded war against organized crime. Despite the sometimes horrific nature of the actions on the part of the primary character, The Whisper, a sympathetic light is still cast though sometimes faintly. Micro’s comparison of methodology between The Whisper and modern day municipal defenders, while barbed, is evenly handled with the ultimate choice left to the reader.

Micro, T. (2015). Saisho Gold: The True Dawn of the Nova Age. Starting with a detailed exposition of the Japanese government and business as compared to the man and woman on the street, the author personalizes the forces behind the implementation of Saisho, then contrasts it with the lagging efforts by Project Utopia to restrict technological development. Dissecting the motivation behind the two disparate approaches, while positing questions regarding the pro’s and con’s of both, the case is made for an objective assessment of risks versus gains in a climate free of fear.