Neville Rankin, his wife Kathleen, and their three daughters reside on the west coast of Australia in the city of Perth (or, ‘The City of Lights’, as John Glenn once called it.) At the age of forty-eight he decided to develop his typing skills on the computer and ended up writing his first novel. A science fiction novel, it quickly flows from one climax to the next and doesn’t bog down in the detailed technical jargon usually associated with space adventures.