Keith Reiss has been writing for decades, publishing scores of works, among them colorful stories of Africa, and the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic (Dreadnoughts of the Mara and Paths of History in the Northland, appearing in The Explorers Journal). Named Author of the Year by a major US aerospace institution, Reiss has long been prepared for the liberating exercise of his informed imagination through storytelling. His perspectives on modern technology's influence on humanity blossomed as he completed a distinguished university career with his PhD in the molecular physics of DNA at Duke University, where the seeds of The Gemini Conspiracy were sewn. After several years of college teaching,… Reiss returned to Washington, DC, his birthplace, and the locale for much of the action in The Gemini Conspiracy. He considers himself fortunate to have played out a panoply of colorful roles, among them: tracking Soviet boomers beneath the polar icecap; scripting and directing massive Pentagon war games; working in the intriguing black world of counter-intelligence and clandestine communications; and inventing drone-based sensors to sniff out terrorist WMD production facilities in the Middle East. In aerospace, Dr. Reiss led many aspects of the design and launch, of dozens of satellites, personally planning and operating a number of missions, including the world's first simultaneously deployed constellation of communications satellites, the low flying MICROSAT birds used in Desert Storm. It is hardly surprising that his first novels are provocative thrillers involving non-pristine characters cast into intricate, cutting edge and provocative situations extrapolated from his own unique experiences and interests.Dr. Reiss resides with his wife, Karen, in Wilmington, North Carolina. His two grown children, Cory and Victoria, are both attorneys.