With this mysterious e-mailed message, a New Age researcher is led toward a mysterious Valley in New Mexico, along the way finding an enigmatic slab of stone carved with Native American rock art, and encountering a strangely shamanic guide, El Viejo.

Dr. Arlan Andrews

Dr. Arlan Andrews, a registered Professional Engineer and professional member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), founded SIGMA in 1992 to provide the practical futurism of science fiction writers for vital national needs. A former ASME White House Fellow in OSTP (White House Science Office), he retired from Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque as Manager of the Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives Department. He then co-founded several high-tech companies, including a virtual reality software firm, Muse Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MUZE, 1998 – 2001), and a biotech process company, Kinetic Biosystems, Inc., now located in Durham, NC.

Arlan previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs and White Sands Missile Range, NM. He is presently the Environmental Program Manager for the U.S. Navy at Corpus Christi, Texas. He has published over 400 fiction stories, speculative fact articles, computer books and opinion pieces in 90 venues worldwide, including the first White House endorsement of nanotechnology in 1993. He holds six patents. More at: http://www.sigmaforum.org