About TS Hottle
TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often. By day, he is a software developer.
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 wife Candy. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.
Another Way to Die
Juno is emerging as humanity's true enemy. To fight it, it needs a blunt instrument.
And his name is Yuwono. Eric Yuwono.
Newly licensed to kill by Cybercommand, his years-long pursuit of bio-weapons designed to bring down the Compact leads him to Hosh, a distant, independent world thriving on sandy beaches and sin and vice for hire.
Posing as a smuggler, he comes looking for a toxin that already felled the Compact president. Instead, he finds someone using illegal resurrection tech to cheat death and replace anyone in their way.
To fight them, he's going to need the Children of Amargosa and their mentor, Suicide.
Royal Orders
Mitsuko Yamato is now head of security for the King of Bonaparte, her fiance Edward Windsor. When someone tries to blow up Edward on his first official visit to Earth and the Compact government, she goes on the warpath.
A deadly cult is responsible, spurred on by a madman named Kurz. To fight him, Mitsuko will enlist her mentor, Suicide, and the rest of the Children of Amargosa. They are headed for a fiery showdown on the steamy jungle world of Aphrodite.
Checkmate
Mud. Distant. Insignificant. Called something worse by the enemy Gelt.
Mud is a token battlefield in a reluctant war. But JT Austin, newly minted Navy pilot, discovers a very human enemy. Assigned to retrieve a shipmate who has elevated to royalty, he soon finds himself running for his life from a mechanized foe who slaughters his shipmates.
He will spirit away the royal party, fake their deaths, hide in the debris of a sister ship, and cut a deal with the enemy Gelt to escape.
But the traitor may actually be in his midst. And his surrogate mother Suicide may not be who he thinks she is.
Check out the Compact Universe
The Compact Universe and The Amargosa Trilogy are TS Hottle's science fiction universe, space opera in the grand tradition of Neal Asher, David Weber, and plenty of Game of Thrones thrown in for good measure. (Except for the dragons. For now.)