Born in England in 1944, Christopher John Mumford has spent most of his life as a Canadian citizen, living, learning, and working in southern Ontario. He is now retired and lives on Vancouver Island. He has long been intrigued by the deep mystery of the universe, the intricate cascade of evolution and, as a child of war, fascinated by the extraordinary paradoxes inherent in human behavior. Mr. Mumford considers his novel, Etchings in the Ether to be fiction only in part.