Brian J Mundell

About Me

As much as I love modern scifi, like The Martian and Interstellar, it’s the old school stuff that got me into the genre. I grew up on black-and-white episodes of The Twilight Zone and never-ending marathons of Back To The Future on AMC. Even the first sci-fi book I read was the century-old novel, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

My interest in scifi was a natural extension of my interest in science. As young as six-years-old I was preoccupied with life’s big questions: Why are we here? Where did we come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? Science seemed to be the best place to get the answers. I wanted to know how the world worked. Shows like The Universe and other documentaries gave me those answers, but sparked more questions. In the process, I fell in love with space, the vastness of the cosmos, and the order and chaos found within the laws of nature.

After studying Mathematics and Philosophy in college, I took the first job that came my way and quickly became bored with the life of a cubicle-dweller. I wasn’t at all interested in the work, and a creative and rebellious side of me that long lay dormant started to shine through. By the peak of the pandemic, a bleak moment in our nation’s history, I decided to quit my job, pack up my SUV and live the van-life for the better part of a year, enjoying the best the country had to offer. Traveling coast to coast, I toured the Kennedy Space Center, swam in the Pacific Ocean, gambled in Vegas, hiked in Colorado, worked out, read books, basked in the sun, and thought about what was next for me. By the end of my trip, the answer was clear.

I threw myself into reading, writing, and reading about writing, and after eight months, I had completed a collection of short stories, Aberration by Brian J Mundell. Not long after that, I started offering freelance Editing Services to help other writers achieve their goals. Four years later, I’ve written dozens of Short Stories and one novel-length manuscript, all with the goal that each story be better than the last.

There are so many writers that I enjoy, (to find a selection of my favorite books, you can click here: Suggested Reading), but I take the most inspiration from Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. Asimov’s stories are full of grand ideas for what’s possible, cut with intellectual debate. On the other hand, PKD’s stories are the pinnacle of mind-bending scifi, subverting the reader at every turn and forcing them to question what’s real.

Outside of scifi, I’m a Mets fan, a steak connoisseur, and I’m well-trained in the craft of bad puns.

My first novel, A Point In Space, is set to be released in early 2026.

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