Raised in a quiet midwestern solar system, Oliver developed early into an amateur inventor, physicist and hacker. Despite his mother’s attempts to divert him into emulating a pop-star, and his father’s moderating influence, Oliver managed to create more than his share of trouble. Beginning with a school science project of a nuclear bomb (safety on), his research developed fascinating breakthroughs in hair tonic, televised hypnotism, genetically modified hamsters, teleportation, and the Grand Unification Theory. This earned him a thermonuclear bomb delivery from a rival physicist, all in good fun of course. His hacking included attacks on media empires, led to bank panics, and even rerouted a space shuttle to land in a neighbor’s beet patch. After being grounded until the age of 45 for nearly causing the death of two friends in an ill-advised publicity scheme against an Amarr diplomat, he turned to the concepts of immortality and space exploration…