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TRAVIS RICHARDSON writes science fiction and techno-thrillers from a home office in Colorado, where the desk is shared with a stack of engineering notebooks, a telescope on a tripod, and a rescue dog with strong opinions about drafting schedules. He holds a degree in aerospace engineering and spent a decade working in the space industry, designing flight software for missions that never quite made the cover of a magazine. That experience — the long nights in simulation, the culture of relentless checklist discipline, the small failures that always precede big ones — became the bedrock of The Scattering.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of print and online anthologies, and he is a frequent speaker at regional science fiction conventions on the subject of making real physics serve a good story. He is drawn to the gap between what physics allows and what people are willing to risk, and his work tends to be about groups of capable people facing problems that no instruction manual covers.
When he is not writing, he is hiking Colorado's front range, pointing the telescope at whatever the local light pollution will permit, or explaining the observer effect to anyone who makes the mistake of asking what he does for a living. The Scattering is his first novel. The Reassembly, its sequel, is in progress.
