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Aaron Peterson

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Born

in Minto NB, Canada

Genre

Fantasy, Nonfiction, Fiction

Influences

Heinlein, Herbert, and Dickinson

Member Since

October 2025

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**Aaron Peterson** writes the way he lives: with dirt on his hands, miles on his boots and curiosity still doing most of the steering.

He began writing as a child, won amateur writing contests and spent years putting that ambition aside while work and life demanded his attention. Retirement finally gave him the opportunity to return to something he had never quite stopped wanting to do.

His nonfiction grows from lived experience and an unreasonable desire to understand how things actually work. Gardening, herbalism, cooking, travel, buying used cars or whatever rabbit hole happens to open, Aaron tends to keep digging long after a sensible person would have stopped.

His fiction comes from the same restless curiosity, although the questions tend ...more

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