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Mr. Grandbois' passion for writing began in grade school. This lifelong interest, combined with a fascination for the exotic land called Tibet, led to the birth of Mental Distortions. Mental Distortions is his first novel.

A career in software development has kept Mr. Grandbois occupied since his graduation from the University of Waterloo. Jean was born in Canada, in 1963. He lives and writes in Ottawa,Ont. Jean is a member of Mensa Canada.

Publications

Fiction:

Mental Distortions, Jean Grandbois, 2002, ISBN 0-9730522-1-X (pdf), 0-9730522-2-8 (.lit), 0-9730522-0-1 (paperback)

Short Fiction:

The Second Pellet, Jean Grandbois, October 2002, Mocha Memoirs

Non-fiction:

Component Database Systems; Edited by Klaus R. Dittrich and Andreas Geppert, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001, 294 pgs

High Level Indexing of User-Defined Types; Weidong Chen, Jyh-Herng Chow, You-Chin Fuh, Jean Grandbois, Michelle Jou, Nelson Mendonça Mattos, Brian T. Tran, Yun Wang; VLDB (Very Large Databases), 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland

An Extensible Architecture For Supporting Spatial Data in RDBMS; Y. Wang, G. Fuh, J.-H. Chow, J. Grandbois, N.M. Mattos, B. Tran; Proceedings of Workshop on Software Engineering and Database Systems, 1998, Taiwan