Kerry Nietz spent much of his childhood developing a love of reading, technology, outer space and later, writing. A refugee of the software industry, he spent more than a decade of his life flipping bits-first as one of the principal developers of the database product FoxPro, and then as one of Bill Gates's minions at Microsoft. He is a husband and father, a technophile and a movie buff. Kerry resides in Ohio with his wife and three children.