J. R. Marzolf, the author of this revolutionary science-fiction series has been shaped by seven decades of life across multiple continents. Multilingual and intensely private, he brings a perspective forged through experience rather than theory.¿An eclectic scholar of medicine, genetics, archaeology, and emerging technologies, his career has spanned international policy work, tropical medicine in austere environments, and field assignments far from institutional safety nets. "Accidentally" present for numerous notable events, such as the Jones Town Massacre, East Timor 1999, the fall of the Suharto regime, the Shah of Iran's exile in Panama 1979, etc.