About this ebook
About the author
James Hatchett writes science fiction from a small town in the Pacific Northwest, where the rain keeps him indoors and at the keyboard. After spending fifteen years as a software engineer designing complex systems that had to work perfectly or people lost money, he realized that designing fictional systems that only had to feel real was far more satisfying. He now builds worlds for a living and has never once regretted the career change.
His short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Analog, and Lightspeed, and his debut novel, The Weight of a Hundred Suns, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He teaches worldbuilding workshops at writing conferences across North America and runs a popular online course that has helped over eight thousand aspiring writers build their first believable science fiction universes.
When he is not writing or teaching, James can be found hiking the Olympic Peninsula with his dog, attempting to keep his sourdough starter alive, and reading deeply in exoplanet astronomy, evolutionary biology, and the history of technology—all in the name of research. He believes that the best science fiction makes the impossible feel inevitable, and that any writer willing to do the work can learn to build worlds that readers will never want to leave.
He lives with his wife and two children in a house surrounded by more books than any of them will ever read, though they are determined to try.
