Baltar Xinzo is the pen name of a writer and engineer from Ottawa, Canada. Xinzo has embraced the freedom of writing fiction as a therapeutic experience, producing refreshing, challenging, and uprising stories. Xinzo speculative fiction has a dark tone, which is typical of science fiction noir; however, anew for this subgenre, Xinzo's stories transmit a sense of hope and optimism. His fiction explores existentialist issues in the backdrop of genres such as cyberpunk, hard science fiction, transhumanism, and transrealism.
You may have realized that Baltar Xinzo is the pen name of a real human being, not a mere AI. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and two lovely cats that make him company during his creative sessions. When not writing fiction, he is a research scientist, among other things.
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