He is a former military intelligence officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology, and has been published in the field of natural resources law.
Jason starts off on a self-destructive streak that leads to being expelled from school, through foster homes and finally to an appointment with a no-nonsense judge.
In the spirit of Johnnie Rico and Starship Troopers, Robert Buettner crafts a story that is as much about a young man coming of age as it is about fighting alien creatures.
[4] The Golden Gate (January 2017, ISBN 978-1-4767-8190-7) My Enemy's Enemy (June 2019, ISBN 9781481484053, trade paperback) The Washington Post and The Denver Post favorably compared Buettner's debut novel, Orphanage, to Robert Heinlein's 1959 classic Starship Troopers, to which the author has written that Orphanage is a deliberate literary homage to Robert Heinlein, and also to Joe Haldeman.
have compared Buettner's books favorably to the work of "Golden Age" science fiction writers Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, L. Sprague de Camp, to recent writers Joe Haldeman and John Scalzi, and to such diverse artists as Miguel de Cervantes, Monty Python and P. G. Wodehouse.
[9] Publishers Weekly said his 2017 novel, The Golden Gate, "was a lavishly detailed narrative...[that] reverberates with current concerns over life extension [and its] underlying mystery and unpredictability keep the pages turning."
Buettner said in an interview that "Writing generation-spanning space opera through a single, first-person-viewpoint character is like painting the Death Star with a toothbrush.