Chris Howard was born and raised in England, and it was there he first began writing stories and songs. He now lives in Denver, Colorado, where he and his wife enjoy mountains, music, and mugs of good coffee. He is the author of NIGHT SPEED, as well as the ROOTLESS trilogy.

Dr Talib S. Hussain is a senior scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies with more than a decade of experience in developing and testing training solutions for both humans and machines. He has developed serious games for the army, the navy and the intelligence community, among others. As principal investigator for the ONR-sponsored Virtual Environment for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning (VESSEL) project, he led the development of authoring technology for games, the development and deployment of the VESSEL Damage Control Trainer game for navy recruit training, and several empirical studies on games and learning.