Kendall Castor-Perry

Kendall Castor-Perry is an English physicist, engineer and writer living in Orange County, CA. He’s a widely acknowledged expert in several technical disciplines of electronic design and currently works on state-of-the-art medical equipment for the analysis and management of atrial fibrillation.

He was raised from an early age on a rich diet of both science and science fiction, in an old house (Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson would have felt at home) full of things to dismantle, puzzle over and rebuild. Editions of ‘Galaxy’ and ‘Amazing’ and a wealth of classic early SF from Asimov to Zelazny filled the bookshelves. His heart would skip a beat when a new stack of yellow-edged Ace paperbacks arrived at the local Woolworths.

Ralph 124C 41+ was probably the gateway to this world at a young age and it left a permanent appreciation of the love-story undercurrent which Kendall is fond of weaving into his prose and screenplay writing. John Wyndham, ‘Doc’ Smith, the films of George Pal and the illustrations of Chesley Bonestell only fueled the fire. He was the youngest person in the audience when ‘2001’ came to town. The young Kendall dreamed of living in a spaceship. Heavily armed, of course.

Love of experimentation drove a fascination for the behavior of the real world under the scrutiny of the scientific method, leading to a focus on Physics and Mathematics at school and University. A strong understanding of physical theory and practice, plus the joy of finding cracks in the world that might be pulled apart in one of our futures, informs Kendall’s fictional writing – and the considerable amount of factual material on electronics that he publishes as his tech alter ego, ‘The Filter Wizard’.

A whiff of the macabre doesn’t go amiss, as his published short stories ‘Bite’, ‘One Step, Two Step’ and ‘Pud’ in three of the Twisted50 horror anthologies (available on Amazon) display. Creepy body-swap story 'Toast' will be published in Twisted50 volume 3 in December 2024. His short horror screenplay ‘Get A Life’ was the runner-up in a 2016 Seattle Film School contest. Earlier versions of his time-twisty feature screenplay ‘Preincarnation’ achieved an SF/Fantasy Category win in the 2017 Fresh Voices contest and advanced to the second round of AFF 2016; the latest version was a finalist in Stage32's 2024 Sci-Fi & Fantasy contest. His ‘Alien: Airborne’ radio play won a contest at the 2018 London Screenwriters’ Festival and was performed and recorded live at the venue. His most recent, tech-based thriller with a psychological edge ‘Streamweavr’ was inspired by Reed Hastings’ quote: “Our only competition is sleep”. When streamers can push content straight into your dreams… what could possibly go wrong?