Robert Linhardt was born in New Jersey in 1953. Dr. Linhardt is a prominent American scientist, author of more than 1,000 scientific papers, holds more than 75 patents and is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Inventors. Linhardt has previously written two non-fiction books, his memoirs, Time, the Essence of a Man (2021) and its post-pandemic follow-up, Time Stops (2023). The author has written novels. Four Legs Good (2024), Rescue from the Tower of Babel (2024), and Moonslide (2025).