Uranophobia is the fear of heaven. The origin of the word uran is Greek (meaning heaven) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). This novella is not the typical heaven tourism story. Nor is it about flatlining and coming back from a near death experience, which happened to this author back in 2016. It is about freakish circumstances, the arrival on a synthetic heavenly planet, and the making of tough soteriological choices.
Stephen Beam is a native Californian. For many years he was a video game artist, starting out freelancing, then later employed full time at Interplay Entertainment. He created game art as diverse as Nintendo's Mario Brothers to realistic Star Trek worlds. He moved on to work as a graphic artist and web designer, creating games and presentations for various government services such as the Long Beach MWD and many VA hospitals around the country. He is now writing bizarre mixed genre fiction.