The First One's Free
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Meet Lucius Kray, himself a constable. Kray misses his glory days in the Compact’s Polygamy Wars and believes they’ll happen again. When Marcus Leitman appears making one of his infamous deals, Kray can’t say no. Leitman offers to arm Kray’s volunteers and more if only Kray will look the other way as his people plant an unlicensed GMO.
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HEADSPACE
“Headspace” is a Compact Universe short story. Rafe is a grad student about to break one of humanity’s oldest taboos: Making his artificial intelligence smart. Terrorists want his work. The government wants to weaponize it. Rafe just wants to impress a girl.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TS Hottle is a software developer from Cincinnati who wanted to write Star Trek episodes growing up. Since they wouldn’t let him, he decided to make up his own. He lives suburban Reading, Ohio.
Find out more about TS at http://www.tshottle.com where you can also learn more about the Compact Universe series and read about whatever he thinks people will listen to him talk about.