Michael Nayak

Follow Michael (Mikey) Nayak on Instagram @authormichaelnayak. Mikey is an author, pilot, scientist and futurist.

He has been a NASA Space Shuttle engineer, satellite Flight Director, Principal Investigator with the US Antarctic Program, and a Program Manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is a graduate of the prestigious US Air Force Test Pilot School with 1,500+ hours of flight time in 45+ aircraft. He holds the highest level of pilot certification issued by the FAA, an Airline Transport Pilot rating. Real-world experience in the military aviation, flight test and intelligence communities adds next-level authentic details and a touch of hyper-realism to his fiction writing.

He is the author of two previous works of science-fiction: "Symbiote" (2025) and its sequel "Sentient" (2026), both part of the "Ice Plague Wars" series. He is also the editor of a non-fiction book about a daring vision for America’s space program: "The Commercial Lunar Economy Field Guide: A vision for industry on the Moon in the next decade".