Christopher attended thirteen years of undergraduate semesters studying creative writing, American Literature, English Literature, print and broadcast Journalism, poetry intensives, and dramatic arts (acting.) He obtained multiple skills engaging in producing, fundraising for not-for-profit theaters, marketing, advertising, and directing and wore a few more hats, some larger than others, all of them about "The Work." My inspiration to write The Vivarium Chronicles began with MOSAIC CAVERNS, followed by THE GLASS PLANET, and will continue with a speculative vision of the future based on the 'hard science' of today. The primary focus I exercise with story themes includes topics of relevance to the human condition in light of the needed bonds to be formed for the transition from a terrestrial existence to a space-based economy with space station infrastructures and exploration. The characters are the vehicles of emotional life and the intellectual differences based on a unique world history from the 21st century forward. My influences are from American Literature of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Revolutionary War-era writings from the likes of George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine. Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, & Walt Whitman are a short list. Hemingway, Asimov, Roddenberry, Spielberg, Lucas, A.C. Clarke, and Frank Herbert English Romantic era painters and poets are influences.