Bruce Balfour, PhD is the national bestselling author of The Forge of Mars (Ace); its sequel, The Digital Dead; as well as 2024/2025 Amazon Charts #1 bestsellers Deadfall and Chicken Gun (as B.J. Balfour); and 2024 Amazon Charts #1 bestseller, The River of Eternity, among other novels.

Bruce began writing short fiction when he was fourteen, and his first professional sales occurred in 1982 with two stories in Twilight Zone Magazine.

Bruce’s traditionally published science fiction novels include: The Forge of Mars, published by Berkley/Ace in September of 2002, The Digital Dead (2003), and Prometheus Road (2004).

Burning Season, a modern-day serial killer novel, was published in January 2012.

In 2009, Bruce started his extensive research on ancient Egypt and the assassination attempt on Pharaoh Ramesses III. His new historical thriller, The River of Eternity, was published in January of 2024, along with its sequel, The House of Death. The third in the series, The Revenge of Sekhmet, was published in October 2024; the fourth, The Book of the Dead, was published in August 2025; and it will be followed in 2025 by the The Harem Conspiracy. These Egyptian historical novels have spent several months on Amazon's bestseller lists in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

When he's not writing, Bruce is the Executive Director of the Phoenix Forge makerspace in Phoenix, Arizona.