Charles Pellegrino is a scientist-adventurer-writer who has not only invented a practical interstellar space probe but also devised a method of genetically duplicating dinosaurs using tissue found in flesh-feeding insects preserved in amber. As an underwater archaeologist, he has been extensively involved in the Titanic expeditions. The author of a number of books on a diverse range of subjects (including the bestselling Her Name, Titanic), Dr Pellegrino lives in New York.