SPECIAL AGENT DONOVAN: Donovan is the agent in charge of the St. Louis office of the Terrestrial Bureau of Investigation. The TBI is the global investigative force, which is charged, among other tasks, with keeping tabs on all Earthside Spacers in order to avoid any unpleasant incidents between the Spacers and the less-privileged Earthers.
TBI agents are a tough, well-trained corps of policeman. In common with his brother agents, Donovan is athletic, intelligent and relentlessly efficient.
Rob Chilson
A Kansas City area writer, Rob Chilson has lived in Missouri since the age of nine. He began writing at eleven, and was part of the last generation of authors to be trained by John Campbell. His first sf story was published in 1968. Among his novels are The Curtain Falls, The Star-Crowned Kings, and The Shores of Kansas. He is currently working on several series of stories in collaboration with such writers as Robin Bailey and William F. Wu. He is also doing another series, for Analog, about pocket brains.