Anthony Kowalski is an immigrant. English is not his native language, and he has taken the liberty of leaving his sentences shaped the way they arrive in his head — commas out of place, articles missing, the Chicago Manual of Style politely ignored. That was the intent.

Terra is his first book, braiding two things not supposed to share a spine: mathematics, starting trivially and building to the formidable, and fiction, scattered all the way through it.

He is not chasing awards or sales figures, having already seduced the most glorious woman to grace the Earth in several centuries — a feat accomplished while broke, in the thickest glasses twentieth-century optics could produce.

Published under his own imprint, Bernardo Gummi Publishers, of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.