InterstellarNet: Origins (38 page)
About the Author
Edward M. Lerner has degrees in physics, computer science, and business administration, background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing full-time. His books include the novels
Probe
,
Moonstruck
,
Fools’ Experiments
, and
Small Miracles
. His short fiction has appeared in
Analog
,
Artemis
,
Asimov’s
,
Darker Matter
,
Jim Baen’s Universe,
anthologies, and the collection
Creative Destruction
. He also writes the occasional nonfiction technology article.
In collaboration with Larry Niven, Ed writes the Fleet of Worlds series novels, so far including
Fleet of Worlds
,
Juggler of Worlds
,
Destroyer of Worlds,
and
Betrayer of Worlds.
The four novels, set in Niven’s “Known Space,” are prequels to the Nebula-, Hugo-, and Locus Award-winning
Ringworld
.
Lerner lives in Virginia with his wife, Ruth.
His website is
www.sfwa.org/members/lerner/.
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Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors
… and interstellar distances made very good fences.
Earth and its interstellar neighbors had been in radio contact for a century and a half. A vigorous commerce in intellectual property had accelerated technical progress for all the species involved. Ideas, riding on radio waves, routinely crossed interstellar space—almost like neighbors chatting over the interstellar back fence. But there is a way over, or under, or around, almost any fence. Sooner or later, when we least expect it, the neighbors, friendly or otherwise, are going to pay a call....
The next chapter in Edward M. Lerner’s InterstellarNet saga is a startling adventure of Second Contact, up-front and in-person. Humanity is about to discover that meeting aliens face to face is very different—and a lot more dangerous—than sending and receiving messages.
InterstellarNet: New Order
by Edward M. Lerner
ISBN 0-9818487-5-3
ISBN-13 978-0-9818487-5-4
FoxAcre Press, Spring, 2010
www.foxacre.com