About the Authors
Janet Morris:
Janet Ellen Morris (born May 25, 1946) is best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of the nonlethal weapons concept, Nonlethality: A Global Strategy. Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 20 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons[2], a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.
Morris was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1980. Morris served as Research Director and Senior Fellow (1989-1994) at the United States Global Strategy Council, as well as Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1993-1995). In 2003-4 she served on the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities and contributed to the Task Force report, Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities (2004).
In 1995, Morris and her husband and frequent co-writer Christopher Morris founded M2 Technologies, which works with U.S. federal and military agencies on nonlethal weapon systems, novel technology applications, and software.
Chris Morris:
Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author, singer-songwriter and composer, married to author Janet Morris[1]. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, a shortened form of his name, but occasionally uses pseudonyms.
Chris Morris began writing music in 1966, fiction in 1984, and nonfiction in 1989. Much of his fiction and nonfiction literary work, including all of his book-length science fiction and fantasy, has been written in collaboration with his wife Janet Morris, including the titles in The Sacred Band of Stepsons saga. Morris is leader of The Christopher Morris Band, whose album of the same name (MCA 2282), was released by MCA Records in 1977.
In the realm of nonfiction, Chris Morris has written books and articles on military and defense matters in collaboration with Janet Morris and others. Chris Morris served as Research Director and Senior Fellow (1989-1994) at the United States Global Strategy Council, as well as Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1993-1995). At USGSC, Morris co-authored the nonlethal weapons concept and the seminal paper, Nonlethality: A Global Strategy,[6] and co-led the USGSC's Nonlethality Policy Review Group. Events surrounding Morris's work in the nonlethal weapons area are chronicled in Chapter 15 of War and Anti-War, by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler, (Little, Brown, 1993). In 1998-1999, Chris Morris was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Technologies and his views are reflected in the associated report, Nonlethal Technologies: Progress and Prospects, Council on Foreign Relations,[7], 1999. He served in 2003-2004 as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Weapons,[8] which produced the report Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities in 2004.
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