Mark L. Van Name is a writer and technologist. He has published three previous novels, edited two anthologies, and written many short stories. Those stories have appeared in a wide variety of books and magazines, including Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, many original anthologies, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. In addition to the four novels, Jon & Lobo stories have appeared in two anthologies and Jim Baen’s Universe, and the first two novels, plus two short stories and a collection of related short essays, form the omnibus Jump Gate Twist. As a technologist, he is the CEO of a fact-based marketing and technology assessment firm, Principled Technologies, Inc.

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