Colin Everard was responsible for managing teams in northeast and east Africa to control desert locust plagues (Desert Locust Plagues Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). He worked with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as a technical cooperation practitioner and oversaw 75 international flight safety projects in Asia. Colin Everard is the recipient of ICAO’s coveted Gold Award and has been widely published internationally, in 4-6 languages. Stories of Other Worlds is Colin’s sixth book. He is based in Vienna.