Michael Cherkashas worked for over 30 years as a graphic designer, art director, cartoonist, and illustrator. His other comics include Suburban Nightmares (with Larry Hancock and John van Bruggen), The Purple Ray (with Larry Hancock) and The New Frontier (with John Sablic). Larry Hancockgraduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics and since then has toiled in Toronto as a Chartered Accountant. However, counter to the view of accountants as boring, he has written The Silent Invasion and The Purple Ray with Michael Cherkas and Suburban Nightmares with Cherkas and John van Bruggen.Robert J Sawyer, who contributes the introduction, is a Hugo and Nebula award winning bestselling SF author.