Rob Swigart is research affiliate at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California, where he develops scenarios and vignettes for Fortune 500 companies. He is author of nine novels, including Little America, The Time Trip, and The Book of Revelations, as well as several works of interactive and electronic fiction. This is his second teaching novel after XibalbA Gate, (AltaMira 2005) which describes Late Classic Maya life.