*Johnson, Les: -Les Johnsonis a futurist, author, and NASA technologist. Publishers Weekly noted that "The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well..." when describing his novel, Mission to Methon e. His most recent novels, The Spacetime War and Saving Proxima * ...

*Johnson, Les: -Les Johnsonis a futurist, author, and NASA technologist. Publishers Weekly noted that "The spirit of Arthur C. Clarke and his contemporaries is alive and well..." when describing his novel, Mission to Methon e. His most recent novels, The Spacetime War and Saving Proxima * (with co-author, Travis Taylor), were published in 2021. In his day job at NASA, Les leads the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission that will use a 925 square foot solar sail to propel a small spacecraft to rendezvous with an asteroid.