(Las Vegas) August 18 – As reported this year through media outlets like NEWSWEEK (May 5, 2003), several dot.com billionaires are now spearheading the private sector race into space as they compete, in part, for the widely touted “X Prize” ($10 million to the first team to pull it off), while hoping to capitalize on the last frontier and potentially the universe’s largest commercial market. As reported in TIME Magazine now even funeral companies are jumping into the fray with promises of space burials and the ultimate trip to the heavens, even if your ashes go in your place. Las Vegas author Edward Es saw it coming more than two years before the plans and programming hit the digital blackboards. Reviewers who have seen advance copies of Edward Es’ new book, are responding…with tears.
SKYEYES (Earthset Press, 375 pp), his new novel, is an uplifting story of hope in a world that sorely needs it. This highly engaging novel details the life of Tom Holmes, a telecommunications mogul who devotes the second half of his life to fulfilling his eight year old son’s dying wish: let me reach the moon. A tightly-written story which borrows from motion picture dynamics to create an, at once, tearful, moving story which simultaneously moves the reader from page to page, SKYEYES stands ready to launch an entirely new style of storytelling, one that most any parent will embrace and that every child will adore. Joe Hartlaub, reviewer with Heartland Reviews, compares Es’s style to the vocal nuances of jazz great, Louis Armstrong: “Armstrong (was) not a classically trained singer, yet few are able to sing as well. And Es, as is amply demonstrated in Skyeyes, is a natural storyteller…I cried all the way through, but don’t tell anyone.” Fellow critic Molly Martin writes that “(The author) proves his ability as a superb storyteller with this initial offering.”
He has never broken the stratosphere himself, but as a former commercial pilot with National Airlines, Edward Es must have been moved by his special perspective of Earth afforded him from his cockpit. A little more than three years ago, the author transformed his airline career to novelist for a generation eager for someone – anyone – to deliver a message so ethereal and loving, it may well have been written at 39,000 feet.

For more information on SKYEYES, visit: www.skyeyesnovel.com