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Seven stories reveal the "gap year" for the Children of Amargosa between the Amargosa Trilogy and the Suicide Arc.
Tishla must deal with shelled aliens looking for a home. JT Austin has a ghost. Davra Andraste saves mean girls on her way to the Navy. Eric Yuwono has to make nice with conquerors turned refugees. Connor Duffy can't stop misuing equipment. Ellie Nardino ponders terraforming. Mitsuko Yamato delays accepting a marriage proposal to pacify sentient squids.
TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often.
For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt.
He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.
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