In book 1 of "Time: A Trilogy," "Ten," we meet Max, Beth, and Spencer, at first as kids graduating high school and moving through college where they refine their passions. Their abilities to realize their goals result in unintended consequences. We are introduced to Maya, an intriguing character whom we only get to know from a distance. And, Max, Beth, and Spencer introduce us to their "project," Core, the first computer-based awareness. The author Hank M. Greene weaves himself into this story about the next ten years, leading one to ask, "who is Hank M. Greene?"