THROUGH THE BACKBONE OF NIGHT

Phillip G Asher was raised in Austin, Indiana, a small town in Southern Indiana. He graduated from Austin High School in 1965. He continued

his education by going to Indiana State University, where he received his BS degree in Earth-Space science secondary education in 1970. He received his MAT degree from Indiana University in Earth Science with a concentration in Geology in 1974.

He had a full career in teaching. He taught science for 38 years at Scottsburg High School, Scottsburg, Indiana. During that time, he

taught several years of evening classes at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana, where he currently resides with

his beautiful wife, Linda, and their beagle dog, Tyler Joseph. He retired from secondary teaching in 2008. Shortly after that, he served as a full-time lecturer in the Geosciences at Indiana University Southeast for an additional 3 ½ years, where he taught Geology, Physical Geography, Environmental Geology, Meteorology, and World Regional Geography. He still teaches a lab in Physical Geography at IUS. He also plays the guitar and keyboard as extra hobbies. He finally found the time to do what he always wanted to, which was write a science fiction novel. This is his first novel.