James E. Dunstan is an “Orphan of Apollo.”  Jim watched the great space race unfold on television at a time when school classes were regularly interrupted to show Gemini and Apollo launches and splashdowns.  Jim grew up reading the science fiction classics by Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Bradbury, and bought into the notion, sold by both these writers and the government, that we were just a few years away from creating a spacefaring civilization. 

Jim desperately wanted to be a part of that breakout, but in a non-traditional way.  So he became a lawyer, hoping to help craft the laws that would govern a multi-planet species.  Jim believes he has lived up to his part of the bargain, becoming a noted specialist in Space Law (inadvertently becoming his own meme), and publishing numerous articles on topics such as space property rights, the law of orbital debris remediation, and even applying the U.S. Bill of Rights to a lunar colony.

Alas, the rest of society turned away from space exploration and colonization after America landed a few humans on the Moon.  Jim is part of the small rabble of people dedicated to taking us back to the Moon, and beyond.

With Atlantis Ascending, his first science fiction novel, Jim hopes to rekindle the spirit of exploration and excitement of a future beyond the confines of Earth.  Atlantis Ascending is a story of the conflict between humans and the harsh environment of space, and the inherent conflict between humans stemming from their vices of greed and desire for power. 

Atlantis Ascending harkens back to the masters of Science Fiction while applying real technologies already on the drawing board, just waiting for visionaries to implement them, in a genre Jim likes to call NewSpace Fiction.