About: Steve Catto is an old man, or at least that's what it says on his birth certificate. He was born in Yorkshire, but his parents took him to Australia when he was six years old and he grew up there, sometimes racing cars across the desert.

He was never very good at school, but the one thing he did learn was how to learn, and he started writing programs for the computer at the local university, much to the disdain of his teachers who told him that he would ‘never make a living out of that rubbish'. In his late teens he returned to the UK, and his parents followed him – which wasn't what he wanted because he was hoping to get away from them. His first proper job was in the computer department of an infamous Oxford publishing company, and he subsequently went on to write software for electricity control systems, and simulators for the military. He started to fly gliders and wrote programs to analyse the data from aircraft flight recorders, where he also learned to fly, and crash, lots of other types of aircraft as well – which was the best part of the job. At various times in his career he has also lived and worked in France, Switzerland, and Canada, and he now lives in Scotland. Since appearing in school plays as a child he has performed almost continuously on the amateur stage, and spent a few years scuba diving. These two things have nothing to do with each other. In terms of his pedigree as an author he has written many technical manuals and filled in countless timesheets, so is well versed in the art of conjuring up works of fiction, however he has never written a novel before, especially not one that involves a blonde girl and a man with a bow and arrow, but he did once spend three weeks working in a factory that made handles for buckets.

About: Mark Van Stratum lost his arm when he was five years old in an accident. He has been expelled from every school he attended. He's pulled off daring heists and spent months on the run. He penetrated the secret world of pickup artists, sleeping with the most beautiful women, and teaching other men how to do the same. He has started several online marketing agencies that have made him multiple millions of dollars in profit. And now, he is engaged to be married to the love of his life.

About: Dr. Robert Williscroft is a retired submariner, diver, scientist, businessman, adventurer, author. He spent 22 months underwater, a year in the equatorial Pacific, 3 years in the Arctic, and a year at the Geographic South Pole conducting atmospheric research. He has appeared on dozens of radio talk shows, and nationally on the Michael Medved show, CNBC, and FOX News. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller Operation Ivy Bells, a semi-biographical Cold-war submarine espionage techno-thriller (2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award & Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Book) (available in audio format with Mark Budwill), the first two books of The Starchild Series – The Starchild Compact (Amazon bestseller, the premise – Saturn's moon Iapetus is a derelict starship) and Slingshot (constructing the World's first space launch loop – recipient of the NABE Pinnacle Achievement Book Award for Science Fiction. Book was launched at the International Space Elevator Conference in Seattle) (just released in audio format with Trenton Bennett), the bestselling current affairs book, The Chicken Little Agenda: Debunking Expert's Lies, now in its 2nd printing, and the children's book, A Relativity Birthday Present, that teaches kids some of the esoteric concepts of relativity, and is endorsed by Dr. Frank Drake of the SETI Institute, who wrote the introduction.