About the Author

D. C. Poyer's stories and novellas have been published in Analog, Isaac Asimov's, Galileo, Tesseract, Unearth, and other magazines, and anthologized in Starry Messenger, The Berkley Showcase, The Analog Annual, Jerry Pournelle's There Will Be War, and other collections and venues. His more than forty published books include White Continent, The Shiloh Project, Star Seed, The Return of Philo T. McGiffin, The Dead of Winter, Winter in the Heart, As the Wolf Loves Winter, Thunder on the Mountain, and many other bestselling books. He teaches Creative Writing at Wilkes University.