Vigil's End is a literary, engaging, intelligently written, epic scale future drama about us, all of humankind, and our ultimate destiny in the Universe--and the role of the Universe itself. The work will appeal to serious readers seeking logic and plausible extensions of science in the entertaining portrayal of a futuristic drama.

Vigil's End is Book One, the central work, of the projected book series, The Ninth Day, that spans a millennium, from the inevitable, catastrophic end of our World and all life on it, to the determination of whether the Legend of Man includes a Ninth Day.

Vigil's End begins in 2881 in Sanctuary, deep in the womb of the Earth, six hundred years after a rogue belt of asteroids inflicted devastating, fatal wounds to the surface of the planet, enveloping Earth in a toxic winter shroud, killing all life. But, with a forty-year forewarning, Sanctuary had been constructed by a world international accord to save one hundred thousand people of the seven billion world inhabitants for a hundred years or more, so they might re-emerge when-- if the surface regenerated itself.

Sanctuary did work, for fifty years, until 2305, when a deadly virus brought inside by a surface expedition killed all of Sanctuary's human population. Not a single human life was spared. But, Samuel, an early humanoid serving Sanctuary, was given one final instruction by `Joe', a human Master. Now, it's 2881, and Samuel is prepared to complete his charge from Joe, to determine if the legend of Man has a Ninth Day.

Grant Macaw grew up in Southern California.  He earned an Academic Honors BA in Languages and Government from California State University, Sacramento, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi.  He also has an MSA in Public Administration from the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 

Along the way to becoming a writer, Grant acquired a military intelligence background with diverse command and geographic tours, achieved the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force's graduate level Air War College. 

Grant lives and writes in Colorado, where he is also on the professional staff of an international consulting firm, where he provides varied technology, information operations, and business strategies and practices services to government components involved in space systems development and operations. 

Grant has several spec screenplays, two TV series concepts and pilot scripts, and a released fiction book, "The Ninth Day".  He has won and placed in film festival and screenplay competitions, including First Place twice in the annual Breckenridge, Colorado Festival of Film.  He currently has a screenplay in pre-production with Curbside Pictures, NY. 

Locally, Grant developed the story concept and wrote the script for a PBS-TV format, 30-minute video docu-drama, "Dreams Made Of Clay", about the internationally renowned art potter, Artus VanBriggle.