Robert P. Fitton is an American writer of science fiction, action adventure, mystery, and thriller books. He authors easy reading, concise, yet riveting works such as his popular Galactic Command Series, featuring Commander John Ross and the crew of ESS-14. In The Nebula Planet, Voyage 26, Commander Ross and crew chase a rogue Commander and his Antarian conspirator into deep space. During the pursuit, they enter a nebula on the edge of the known galaxy. Awaiting them on the far side is an enclosed solar system controlled by Omnipotent beings with a unique perspective about humanity’s future.
Fitton’s Sojourn Series, Desperado, The Vargut Emnas and The Awaited One, is a modern day Odyssey. Featured is former intelligence agent Tom Loftus, brought to earth as an infant, but as a man embarked on a compelling journey through time and space to lands and planets where the human race originated. His destiny, preordained in the ancient Ta-Buhn-Shar writing, is to engage the Creod Sard in the final struggle of good and evil.
The intra solar system of the future provides a venue for retired agent, Harry Cobb. The captivating titles such as the Dust of Mars and the Ice of Triton are indicative of far away exotic places. Inside his futuristic world of city domes on Mars, solar system travel and distant ice moons, Cobb establishes his own investigative agency. With a network of old friends and trusted employees the intrepid Cobb relentlessly unravels the most unsolvable crimes with a twist at the end of each book novel.
Time waits for no man say the ancients. Fitton developed a respect of history from his mother and father and a knowledge of history through college and beyond. Time travel is just another excuse for the writer to return to the past, but his readers are inexorably transported back with him! Red Shift, part of the Jim Cahill Time Travel Series, is such a book. American history in the early 1960’s changed because Jim Cahill stepped into the past. As with Fitton’s other time travel books, history is raw, uncut, and alive as if the reader were back in time.
The American small town is quickly becoming extinct--- Not so in the Matthias Jones Mysteries set in, Hamilton, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Matthias Jones is a coach who solves mysteries with the help of local colorful characters. The idea of an average person faced with extraordinary challenges is a theme prevalent in all Fitton books. The parochial flavor brings forth a mystery
with sometimes frustrating humor that makes the mystery series unique.
When he was a child Robert’s mother read stories aloud that expanded his imagination. He never thought of himself as a writer, yet all he evidenced all the signs: Little items like constructing stories from weekly spelling words or mimicking his teachers. He cast himself as battle worn soldiers in countless World War II battles. The spelling words became page-turning plots, the sarcastic mimicking evolved into rich, crackling dialogue and the soldiers were now his heroes, escorted through a tapestry of explosive plots with unforgettable characters.
Robert P. Fitton grew up amidst the less complicated life of a Massachusetts town in the 1950's and 60's. He was raised with an appreciation of family, local, and American History. Summers were spent in his neighborhood and town, often competing in baseball and other sports within small town America. With television's increasing influence, Fitton reveled in the 1960's Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. On cold winter nights he pointed his telescope skyward and dreamed of traveling to the stars or back through time.
Fitton graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, but took numerous literature courses, including the study of science fiction. After graduation, he began writing science fiction novels. He later built a career in outside sales and continued writing in his free time. Numerous writing seminars with mainstream authors helped Fitton tighten his writing style and enliven his content. With marriage and an expanding family, he compressed his writing time into the pre-dawn hours, adding mystery, fantasy, thrillers, and pop novel genres to his work. The advent of the personal computer prompted Fitton to retire his typewriter and dramatically increase his volume on computer disk. Fitton was one of the first authors to bring his novels to the Internet for direct downloads for Palm Pilots and other formats
Today, Fitton resides in a New England village, maintains a jogging schedule, often under the stars by winter, and a warm weather biking routine in summer. His writing continues with new and exciting paperback novels available on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com, all with the same Fitton attention to individual characters overcoming enormous odds.
