Call me Akeishen. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — I found myself drawn irresistibly toward the vast and boundless ocean of books. It is a pleasure, nay, an honor, to make your acquaintance. I am, by disposition and by devotion, a reader of great and voracious appetite, a writer still green in his craft yet earnest in his striving, and a man seized by an unrelenting wonder for the natural sciences — for the grand machinery of the universe, its laws immutable and magnificent, fills me with the same restless awe that the open waters inspire in those who dare to sail them.