There's clearly a lot of backstory here, but I haven't written it. The novel queue is full up. I may come back to these guys in the future, as "alien struggling to survive and find a way home" and "Prof dealing with first contact" could be novels in themselves. But that would be a few years out at least.
Good value as ever.
Also "Then again, nobody with tenure in the department was thin enough to make it to this end of the bowling alley in the first place."
Giggle. Snort.
Nice one.
Very cool first contact tale, Karl. 😎 Loved the characters and the premise.
Thank you!
Is this part of a larger story?
There's clearly a lot of backstory here, but I haven't written it. The novel queue is full up. I may come back to these guys in the future, as "alien struggling to survive and find a way home" and "Prof dealing with first contact" could be novels in themselves. But that would be a few years out at least.
Given that I enjoyed this, and haven't read any of your other work, where would you recommend that I start?
My most popular novel is Torchship, a blue-collar story about a spy going undercover to fight a government which outlaws unsupervised computers:
https://www.amazon.com/Torchship-Karl-K-Gallagher-ebook/dp/B0195ZSG4W
If you'd like more short stories, I have a collection of them up:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D79W1RFS
And my "About" page has descriptions of all of them.
https://gallagherstories.substack.com/about
Enjoy!
Will do!