About Maxwell Silver

Terror Quest is an unusual book, so I think it deserves an unusual "About" page for the author.

Ten Things You Don’t Know About Maxwell Silver


  1. Maxwell Silver is the pen name of someone else you never heard of.
  2. He has visited tombs in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings that are usually closed to the public: Seti I (KV17) and Queen Nefertari (QV66: she’s in the Valley of the Queens, one ridge over), and the tomb of the sons of Ramses II (KV5) among them.
  3. He has climbed into the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid and tested the King’s Chamber acoustics with crystals and tuning forks.
  4. He has been a college professor, course developer, technical writer, and author.
  5. Maxwell has been in all 50 states, and all but two Canadian provinces. He’s working on Mexico.
  6. He spent ten years flying at least once a month all over the world to explain new internet technologies.
  7. He has been near the Arctic Circle at the summer solstice, when the sun just circles around and dips below the horizon from midnight to 2 am. You can drive without headlights, even then. And rainbows circle around too.
  8. He was at Woodstock in 1969, but left Saturday night because there was a lot better music at the Fillmore East—and it didn’t rain.
  9. He took the Math Achievement SATs three times trying to get an 800 (perfect score). His best was 798 (a teacher told him, “There’s nothing on that test worth two points…”).
  10. He has had conversations with people as diverse as Britney Spears, Hulk Hogan, Stephen King, Dave Crosby, the Jefferson Airplane, and others. Amazingly, they were just people. Only one of them was mean to him.


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