Best known for more than fifteen years as the world's top-ranked player of classic role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Donald J. Bingle is not only a published writer of a variety of role-playing adventures and gaming materials (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Chill, Paranoia, Timemaster, and more), but of movie reviews (in early issues...
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Best known for more than fifteen years as the world's top-ranked player of classic role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Donald J. Bingle is not only a published writer of a variety of role-playing adventures and gaming materials (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Chill, Paranoia, Timemaster, and more), but of movie reviews (in early issues of Knights of the Dinner Table), stories, and screenplays.
His first novel, Forced Conversion, was published by Five Star, an imprint of Gale/Cengage. Says Hugo and Nebula Award-Winner, Robert J. Sawyer: "This is the debut of a major novelist--don't miss it."
His second novel, GREENSWORD: A Tale of Extreme Global Warming, is just out. Says Elizabeth A. Vaughan, USA Today Bestselling Author of the Warlands Trilogy: "I loved GREENSWORD. The characters made me laugh right out loud, but the actions of this group of half-cocked people, with a half-assed plan, had me gasping in horror as their implausible schemes became all too plausibly real. Suddenly, the twists of the chilling plot had me turning the pages, unable to look away from the macabre tale and yet still chuckling guiltily as the story reached its terrifying climax in a horribly real way. GREENSWORD is a darkly humorous, gripping thriller that combines environmental imperatives, terrorist activities, and sex in ways that still make me wake up in a cold sweat, months after reading the book, convinced that it could happen."
Don also has a variety of short fiction in the fantasy, science fiction, military fiction, horror, mystery, and comedy genres. See www.donaldjbingle.com for a full, current listing. He is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the Role Playing Game Association® Network, the American Bar Association, and the St. Charles Writers Group. Don works as a corporate and securities attorney at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC in Chicago. Don and his wife, Linda, also own 54°40’ Orphyte, Inc., a small game company that produces the TimeMaster® role-playing game.
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