Despite reports to the contrary, Satya Zawaski himself did not originate on an asteroid. He is, in fact, a Midwesterner by birth, raised in the Northeast, who migrated to the West Coast in his mid-twenties. He now resides in Seattle, although he is frequently to be found in sunnier climes. He has written a good deal of poetry for much of his life, a few of which have been published. This is his first novel.