Steven E WildeI grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor's degree in engineering. My wife, Marilyn, and I have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Together we enjoy camping, hiking, travel, and get-togethers with extnded family. In my quiet time, I enjoy gardening, genealogy, emergency preparedness, and now, writing. I love to read, and enjoy most genres, particularly murder mysteries and science fiction. My work as a project manager has given me exposure to multiple industries and specialties, including electric utilities, nuclear power plant construction, water management, global mining, and aerospace. Each of those experiences contributed to my interest in, and the broad perspective needed to write about, the potential effects of global thermonuclear war on the infrastructure and people of the world. The inspiration for this series came to me many years ago. The original story, about a young engineer trapped by a futuristic technology on a dying world, was primarily science fiction. When I began writing the story, I realized that I wanted to tell the back-story-how nuclear war and scientific discover led up to this crisis in the engineer's life-and that I now had the life experiences that would help fill in the details. During my first career, as a project manager, a lot of my work consisted of technical writing, including two technical publications for the Department of Defense (DoD) on my work with graphite composite materials in the construction of prototype components for military hardware. Now in my second career, as a fiction writer, this is my first publication of creative writing, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the research, writing, reviews and interaction with reviewers, my editor and artists in the preparation of the publication. Please see my website, www.stevenewilde.com, for more information about the story, the characters, the key locations, objects and concepts, the organizations and groups, and the facts in the fiction. Read More Read Less