Bryan Bunch is the author of The History of Science and Technology (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003) as well as author or coauthor of many other trade nonfiction books about mathematics and science; reference books and articles on medicine and science; and science textbooks. His specialty in addition to the history of science is mathematics, which he taught at Pace University-his popular mathematics books deal with paradoxes (Mathematical Fallacies and Paradoxes), symmetry (Reality's Mirror), and number (The Kingdom of Infinite Number: A Field Guide). This is his first work of fiction.