Hi. I read the attached first page, and I liked the general idea of the story, while seeing several other ways to begin the whole thing. I would need to read the entire manuscript through at least once and do a beta read (initial critique) before deciding how to best improve the story. I´m a big fan of an English explorer named Percy Fawcett (the original Indiana Jones), and I´ve lived in rainforests in Brazil and Argentina (I still live in the Atlantic Rainforest near Rio), so the initial setting is my back yard, so to speak. About me - although I live in Brazil, I´m an American writer, editor and proofreader, a native US English speaker with excellent language skills and years of experience correcting and improving books and other texts. I can use Word´s Track Changes to show you all my comments, suggestions and alterations in your book. Maybe we could divide the job into blocks, as 2 months of work before getting any pay is a little difficult for me at the moment. I like the idea of doing a test rewrite on a short piece of the book, and I always offer a 2nd edit (after I rewrite the text, you analyze it and see what still needs work, then I improve those parts. If it requires more than just a 2nd edit, we may need to increase the delivery time. But I´m excited to work on this with you. I must confess that so far I haven´t seen why you call this story science fiction, but one page hardly tells the whole story. Anyway, please contact me for further discussion. Thanks, David