Sal Moriarty was a famous writer, poet and traveler who spent most of the final two decades of the 25th Century visiting the colonies of the United Earth Government. His journeys were most famously documented in his novel: The Spacer Bums: A Tale of a few Lonely Men trying to find Paradise. He was remembered after his death by his lifelong partner Dean Allen Burroughs, whose details are remembered in an interview he undertook shortly before his death.