As a boy in Canada, it seemed like time travel to regularly watch Sunday afternoon American WWII documentaries hosted by Walter Cronkite on my family's black&white TV.

Being Canadian, hockey was in my blood. It was frozen backyard rinks in winter. Worn-out front lawns in summer. And every wintry Saturday night was "Hockey Night In Canada".

In my teens, the TV was now color, and the war news was the British Invasion. Led by those famous four mop tops The Beatles.

Coming of age in the psychedelic 60s, I became aware of the changes in consciousness possible through the influence of mind-altering chemicals.

Culturally, I was drawn to ancient Egypt with its pantheon of magical gods such as Osiris, Isis, and Horus. A German-born friend schooled me in the musical genius of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Novels like Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five", Heller's "Catch-22", and my favorite, Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" showed me that an author could write about actual WWII history, and combine it with more imaginative scenarios and events.

No wonder, then, that my debut novel "Project Brainfire" is a crazy salad of all the above influences, liberally doused with a humorous dressing.

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