Rodger Olsen was born in 1942. He lives in Lake Elsinore, California and Premalka, Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia. In addition to his two grown daughters and two ex-wives, he has a Russian wife and a three year old daughter.
Mr. Olsen was a pioneer in the computer games industry. In the early days of PCs he founded Aardvark Software and published dozens of games and utilities of his own creation and others.
He was particularly well known for creating adventure games that took days to play in an era where computers had very little memory, no hard drives, and virtually no storage.
When the early games era died, he worked in the music industry, creating software systems for EMI, Warner Brothers, and Capitol Records.
In addition to Rodger’s Russia, he has also written The Empire of Texas (science fiction, available through Amazon), and co-authored Conrad’s Crusade with Leo Frankowski (also science fiction available through Amazon and GreatAuthorsOnline.com)