Beyond Amargosa - Paperback
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Three novellas tell of humanity's reaction to the brutal invasion of distant Amargosa:
Broken Skies - A failed liberation attempt for Amargosa reveals an enemy closer to Earth. Quentin Austin must find out who collaborated with the unknown aliens to have over the idyllic farming colony. And strand Austin's son behind enemy lines. Warped - Hideki Okada is drafted back into the Navy to make warp drive viable after four centuries of wormholes. Only the Navy wants to send humanity's new enemy, the Gelt, a message they'll never forget. Okada is reluctant to rain fire down on an unsuspecting colony. Flight Blade - Gid Modesto and Mitsuko Yamato are thrown together on a mission to visit Hanar, a former human colony where Gelt and human have joined forces to rebuild. They learn they have a new ally against those who seized Amargosa. Unfortunately, their biggest battle is with each other.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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