Product Description
Thanks to the wonder of the hide, no one starves or freezes or gets sick on the perfect worlds of the Solarian Alliance. Like a synthetic skin, the hide protects and heals, and can transform people into anything they want to be. Nothing threatens this utopian existence until an extraterrestrial message of unspeakable horror is received. An evil race terrorizes the galaxy, and it's coming toward Earth. . . .Into this world, the Solarian Alliance frees Krim, the last survivor of the Beat asteroid known as the Jack and a prisoner since he saw his world vanish into that strange other space known as Ur. Disgusted with this utopia, Krim enlists in a distant fight at the edge of the solar system, the battle no one on Earth may know about, lest it disrupt their perfect peace . . . the Hidden War.
About the Author
Michael A. Armstrong was born in Charlottesville, Va., in 1956, raised in Tampa, Fla., and graduated in 1977 with a BA from New College of Florida, Sarasota. He moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1979 and has lived in Homer, Alaska, since 1994. He spent his first two Alaska summers working on archaeological digs in the Arctic, experiences which inspired him to write Agviq: The Whale and other stories set in the north. His first novel, After the Zap, was written as his thesis for a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage. He also attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. He also wrote The Hidden War (TSR Books, 1994). All his novels are available as electronic books.
His short fiction and articles have been published in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction Quarterly, The Anchorage Daily News, the Homer News, and various original anthologies. He published his first story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1981. His first novel was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award, and he has won numerous awards from the Alaska Press Club and two Morris Excellence in Journalism awards. He received a $5,000 individual artist grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and attended the Seaside Institute's Escape to Create artist residency in Seaside, Fla.
In his over 30 years in Alaska, Michael has run sled dogs, built his own cabin, chopped wood, carried water, used an outhouse at 20 below, faced down a grizzly bear, and fished for monster halibut, among other adventures. He has taught creative writing, English, and dog mushing at the University of Alaska Anchorage and at the Kachemak Bay Branch, Kenai Peninsula College. He works at the Homer News and is married to Jenny Stroyeck, a partner in the Homer Bookstore. They live in a cabin they built themselves in the hills 1,200 feet above Homer, which they share with a large and enormously cute labradoodle.
His short fiction and articles have been published in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fiction Quarterly, The Anchorage Daily News, the Homer News, and various original anthologies. He published his first story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1981. His first novel was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award, and he has won numerous awards from the Alaska Press Club and two Morris Excellence in Journalism awards. He received a $5,000 individual artist grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and attended the Seaside Institute's Escape to Create artist residency in Seaside, Fla.
In his over 30 years in Alaska, Michael has run sled dogs, built his own cabin, chopped wood, carried water, used an outhouse at 20 below, faced down a grizzly bear, and fished for monster halibut, among other adventures. He has taught creative writing, English, and dog mushing at the University of Alaska Anchorage and at the Kachemak Bay Branch, Kenai Peninsula College. He works at the Homer News and is married to Jenny Stroyeck, a partner in the Homer Bookstore. They live in a cabin they built themselves in the hills 1,200 feet above Homer, which they share with a large and enormously cute labradoodle.
