The author of this novel, "Romance in Matrix", Scott Ting-Ren Kan, was born in Chungking, China during WWII. He grew up in Taiwan and later received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Idaho in the US. For more than three decades, he worked at Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and Rockwell to research and develop the control systems of fighters, bomber, missiles and the space shuttle. He published many theses covering the topics as software simulation, trajectory design, system integration and so on.
As a professional aero-defense engineer and a devoted family man, Scott has managed to be an amateur novelist. From a young age he has endeavored to write a novel under the influence of French classic, Jean Christopher. He completed a novel in 1971. Started from 1978 he rewrote the entire book with different scope and time background, under other influences from Faulkner, Camus, Chinese author known as Chian Chung Su and others. He finished the novel titled "Four Seasons" in 1991. Then from 1998, he picked a third of his novel "Four Seasons" to work on it and named it "Romance in Matrix". It took more than a decade to complete the final version. The intent to publish it is simply to entertain the readers and to relieve the author's lifelong burden.
