X Ho YenX.HoYen is an autistic, East Prussian-Cuban-Chinese human raised by Kwai Chang Caine on the planet Vulcan. Minimum Safe Distance is his first novel, many years in the making.Before his two+ decades in aerospace engineering, he was a sandwich maker, scurity guard, deliverer of flowers, preschool teacher, data processing grunt, taxi driver, and independent software author. He's been married since the Soviet Union was dissolved.He's been in the air (PPL glider rating), out to sea (science data collection), deep underground (Carlsbad Caverns, etc.), and in high mountain, winter whiteout (research station).He wants to continue the trend of humanizing, globalizing, and de-militarizing realism-based sci fi.Everything in this bio is true except the part about being raised on Vulcan - that was poetic license. But X.HoYen is a pen name.Keep in touch at XHoYenAuthor.com. Read More Read Less