Jeffrey Morris is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and designer whose thirty-five-year career spans the realms of film, publishing, and science education. A Future Askew is the first in a series of books exploring science, civilization, and the future. Its sequel, titled A Future Aloft: Speculative Essays Inspired by a New Sci-Fi Vision, is forthcoming in 2027. His documentary The Eagle Obsession-featuring William Shatner and Apollo 16 astronaut Gen. Charles Duke-has won fourteen awards across six countries. He co-authored the sci-fi epic Persephone, based on his original screenplay, with NYT-bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson. He brought cinematic storytelling to educational initiatives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the International Space University, and Lockheed Martin, in addition to directing for Prince at Paisley Park. Morris grew up during the promise of the Apollo era and was raised by African American trailblazers - an aerospace engineer father and a librarian mother. He's intellectually rooted in the works of Carl Sagan, Gene Roddenberry, Jacques Cousteau, and Syd Mead. Politically homeless by conviction, his framework for change is civilizational as opposed to political.