Martin Knox grew up on a farm in Somerset, England. He rode a horse and played rugby. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Birmingham University. His work with energy was in a nuclear power station, in petroleum engineering in Canada, in coal mine development and in transportation. He researched alternative systems of government at Imperial College, London. He became a high school teacher and wrote science textbooks with energy emphasis, published by the Queensland Department of Education.This book is his tenth book published. He has been writing fiction and satirical novels full-time since 2013: speculative, love, politics, crime, sport, totalitarianism, science and technology. He is involved in public policy-making, has proposed an underground railway for Brisbane, developed ideas for mitigating flooding of the Brisbane River and an anti-memoir of his spiritual enlightenment following Friedrich Nietzsche. He has written about the philosophy of climate science from a phenomenological viewpoint. He discusses current issues at U3A and has studied philosophy with students at the University of Queensland. He attends community development forums. He blogs ideas from his books and relates them to events in the news. He writes letters, plays the guitar, plays chess and walks in the park by the river where he lives. He reads classical novels, watches movies and enjoys The Big Bang Theory.He is divorced with children and grandchildren.