Born at an early age of mixed parents, a man and a woman, the author’s early childhood was a disaster; his imaginary playmate would have nothing to do with him, though he himself thought the kid was great. Since then it’s been all downhill. Seriously, a former aerospace engineer, he spent several decades designing flight systems hardware at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., where a career high was five years spent on a recently declassified project codenamed AZORIAN that secretly and successfully retrieved a Soviet era naval submarine from the deep Pacific north of Hawaii. Olympus Mons is one of ten novels published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, eight in the vein of speculative fiction, one historical novel, and one a humorous satire of the areospace industry.