Charles Pellegrino is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestseller Her Name, Titanic, and Ghosts of the Titanic, which James Cameron used as sources for his blockbuster movie Titanic and his 3D Imax film Ghosts of the Abyss. Pellegrino serves as a scientific consultant on James Cameron’s Avatar films. The interstellar vehicle seen in the first film is based on Pellegrino’s and Powell’s brainstorming sessions at Brookhaven National Laboratory—their Valkyrie rocket design, hybridized with Robert L. Forward’s StarWisp. (Valkyrie was first introduced in AAAS 1986 Symposium Proceedings, the journal Science). Assessing nucleosynthesis rates, he and Francis Crick developed the Genesis and Galactic Blight theory (predicting a “moment” in the history of galaxies, during which the emergence of Earth-like planets becomes probable). With Jesse Stoff, he produced the original models predicting the discovery of hydrothermal oceans in certain icy moons of the outer solar system, and with Powell designed nuclear melt-through probes to explore those hidden worlds. He and Powell also worked closely with Senator Spark Matsunaga on the U.S./Russia Space Cooperation Initiative during the 1980s as a means of helping to reduce the probability of nuclear war on Earth. Pellegrino has developed patents and contributed to many scientific journals, ranging from Crustaceana to Princeton Symposium Proceedings on forensic archaeology, and (in Nature, Futures) a thought experiment on multiverse/string theory with George Zebrowski. He is probably best known as the scientist whose “dinosaur biomorph recipe” became the scientific basis for the Jurassic Park series.