About the author
Larry Secrest has been an engineer, physicist, Quality Manager, Corporate Reliability Manager, Internal Business Consultant, devoted husband (thirty-two years), father, grandfather, and Yellowstone National Park backpacker. After receiving a Master's Degree in Nuclear Physics from Utah State University in 1975, he languished twenty-five years in corporate dungeons before writing Skyhook. Skyhook is an ironic result of that corporate employment. In 1994 he filed a patent application for a real skyhook. Larry is fifty-three years old and resides in Troy, Michigan.