Walter H. Hunt has nearly twenty years experience in high tech as a software engineer and techincal writer. His writing relfects an abiding interest in history, his area of college study, but science fiction has been his favorite reading material since he watched Neil Amstrong walk on the moon when he was but a lad. He is an active freemason and a lifelong baseball fan. He lives in eastern Massachusetts with his wife and daughter." The Dark Ascent "is his third novel.