Six Encounters with Apocalypse

The Authors. Robert and Bery Sanford made their home in Marblehead since he joined the GE / NASA's moon program. Previously he was a researcher with an atomic energy project at Columbia University. For the past eighteen years he was an adjunct professor in Management, also in Chemistry and Physics at Salem State University and Suffolk University. Robert and Bery began their authorship collaboration over a year ago and published first an anthology in December 2018 on Amazon that included a collection of stories under the title: "Humanity and: Existential Intelligence, Its Bonds, Its Faith, Causal Relationships, Dark Side, Inhumanity, Ghosts, Hopeless Love, etc."Then in January 2019 they published two titles: "To Life: A Journey", Bery's memoir and: "The Quantum Tinkerer", science fiction, the first of a Trilogy. This was followed by two more science fiction sequels to the Quantum Tinkerer during February, 2019: first "The Multiplet Game" the locale for which is Marblehead, followed by "The Quantum Mystery of the Missing Islands in the South China Sea" a topic of considerable interest in current world affairs. For a change of pace, in March they nearly missed their record by publishing on the last day of the month: "Your Room Key is at the End of the Hall and other World Travel Tales", a spicy tongue in cheek collection of true international travel stories. Their most recent book is: "Gerda, The Girl who became a Spy." All of the above are on Amazon.com published in sixty countries on Kindle and paperback. Robert and Bery are childhood sweethearts originally from Romania who met at the end of the war. Both have survived the Holocaust, however Bery's story has much tragedy and suffering; the loss of both grandparents in a concentration camp and of her uncle who was made to dig his own grave and died expressing his love for the country of his killers. She was only three years old when her parents divorced and her mother moved to Bucharest where she remarried. Bery learned to live with a terrible burden when, at the age of ten she ended up without documents at Bucharest and she spent the rest of the war in hiding. She survived the pogrom of 1941 in which Jews were rounded up and packed in death trains by the Nazi sympathizers, or killed and hung in the abattoir with a stamp "kosher meat" on their dismembered bodies. Life can imitate the movies for Bery and Robert. Her stepfather became a member of the Romanian government in exile in the USA. Bery and Robert came to the USA as visitors. One day, Robert received an invitation to report to the Draft Board. After serving in Korea during the war, he and Bery were granted citizenship. The GI Bill enabled Robert to complete his degrees in Chemistry and embark on a scientific career. He was employed in the semiconductor equipment and materials industry for twenty years and held executive management positions. Mr. Sanford is particularly active in international markets. He participated in the establishment of several joint ventures in Japan, China, Israel and East Europe. In addition, he served as Chairman of the China Electronics Forum, Beijing and Shenzhen, China, and he was a regular contributor to the Semiconductor International publication of the SEMI Institute.