Volume I · Foundation

About the Author

Marcus Corvin is a pen name. The person behind it does not think that matters much.

What matters: he read about this for years before he tried any of it, and the trying went worse than the reading. That gap is where the book came from.

Most of what is in it came from other people. The sources are in the notes, and where a claim rests on research rather than observation, it says so. Where he is guessing, he has tried to say that too.

He has been wrong about most of this at least once. Some of those wrong turns are in the text, where they were useful.

The point is that after reading this, you need it less. If that sounds like a strange thing for an author to want, you are beginning to understand the book.