Author: Charles Platt
Fuller name: Charles Michael Platt
Alternate names: Aston Cantwell; Robert Clarke; Charlotte Prentiss
Born: 26 April 1945
Bio: Charles Platt was born in London, England, and moved to New York City in 1970.  In 1994 he co-founded a cryonics organization called CryoCare in 1994.  He was a senior writer at Wired magazine for several years.  He is the author of over 40 fiction and nonfiction books, including science-fiction novels such as The Silicon Man and Protektor.  His non-fiction works are on the subjects of computer technology and cryonics.  In addition to writing, he is a journalist and a computer programmer.  He was an editor at three different New York publishing houses, and he designed and edited the British magazine New Worlds.