The Exile: Compact Universe

By TS Hottle

Nolan Rosc has been exiled. His crime? Attempting to assassinate the First Citizen of Hanar. His punishment? Travel to Armaneya, a city in space that is the gateway to the Laputan Guardianship and a crossroads for every known and some unknown species. There, he will recruit new settlers for that same First Citizen he tried to kill. But a trillionaire has taken an interest in his work. And so has his rival. Soon Rosc finds himself embroiled in a secret war that has been going on for centuries. And Rosc may become it's latest casualty.

• Language: English
• Publisher: TS Hottle
• Release date: Oct 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393295594

TS Hottle

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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