R.M. Meluch

R.M. Meluch is an American science fiction author best known for the “Tour of the Merrimack” series of novels. Born in 1956, she has been publishing in the genre for more than three decades and has degrees in classical civilization and communications. She also speaks several languages including Latin and Greek and has traveled through Egypt, Israel and Greece following the tracks of Alexander the Great. Meluch wrote her debut novel “Sovereign” in 1979 and until 1992 she wrote a variety of novels on several themes before she took a long break. In 2005, she published “The Myriad” the first of the “Tour of the Merrimack” series. These are space opera/military science fiction novels set in in a future where the recreated Roman Empire and the United States are at war with the alien invaders known as “The Hive.” She currently has more than twelve novels and a collection of short fiction. She first got interested in science fiction when she read the works of Gene Roddenberry, Jules Verne, Frank Herbert, and Robert Heinlein. She has also been influenced by the Patrick O’Brian sea stories.