The Children of Amargosa - Paperback
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The Children of Amargosa - Childhood ends the night the sky explodes. For Davra Andraste, her quiet life aboard Amargosa's orbital station is shattered when aliens known as the Gelt destroy it. She falls to the surface and links up with a cadet bamed Eric Yuwono, along with two teens, Ellie and Duffy, who excel in explosive pranks and mostly harmless hacking. For JT Austin, his idyllic farm life is destroyed when his host family is slaughtered. He and their daughter Lizzy flee for the woods. When JT and Davra's group link up, they form the core of a new resistance to the aliens.
Gimme Shelter - JT Austin flees his wealthy family to make his own fortune on Tian, the financial and cultural capital of the Compact. A prank lands him on Amargosa, an agricultural colony. To teach him a lesson, his parents strand him there, hoping he will learn something of work. JT soon finds himself under gaze of the farmer's daughter. And a shady constable from a nearby township. Something is going on, though. The constable is training a fighting force. Plus, rumors abound of a coming alien invasion.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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