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Carol Van Natta

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Carol Van Natta writes science fiction and fantasy, including Overload Flux, Minder Rising, Zero Flux, Pico's Crush, and Jumper's Hope, the first five books in a space opera series; In Graves Below (Magic, NM) , a paranormal romance; and Hooray for Holopticon , a retro science fiction comedy. She shares her Fort Collins, CO home with a sometime mad scientist and various cats. Any violations of the laws of physics in her books is the fault of the cats, not the mad scientist. Be the first to know about new releases by signing up for her newsletter at bit.ly/CVN-news or read her blog at Author.CarolVanNatta.com, or find her on Facebook at CarolVanNattaAuthor. ...more

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	Shifter Mate Magic (Ice Age Shifters, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overload Flux (Central Galactic Concordance #1) 3.91 avg rating — 850 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minder Rising (Central Galactic Concordance, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pets in Space 7 (Pets in Space, #7) by Carol Van Natta (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), S.E. Smith (Goodreads Author), R.J. Blain (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jumper's Hope (Central Galactic Concordance, #4) 4.32 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shift of Destiny (Ice Age Shifters, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pets in Space 6 (Pets in Space #6) by Carol Van Natta (Goodreads Author) (Editor), S.E. Smith (Goodreads Author), Veronica Scott (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pico's Crush (Central Galactic Concordance, #3) 4.23 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pets in Space 8 (Pets in Space, #8) by Carol Van Natta (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), R.J. Blain (Goodreads Author), Susan Hayes (Goodreads Author), Honey Phillips (Goodreads Author), Skye MacKinnon (Goodreads Author), Arizona Tape (Goodreads Author), Tana Stone (Goodreads Author), S.J. Pajonas (Goodreads Author), more… 4.56 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Ship Off Polaris-G (Central Galactic Concordance, #0.5) 4.23 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Days of Future Ahead for 2026

This is my annual look back and plans for the 365 days of future ahead for 2026. And yes, I’m riffing off a Moody Blues album title from 1967, because I’m in a musical kind of mood as I write this. (Here’s a playlist.) Those Were The Days (Listen here) As with the years that...

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Central Galactic Concordance (6 books)
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Ice Age Shifters (5 books)
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“I kept telling him sex isn’t the oldest profession, it’s politics,”
― Carol Van Natta, Minder Rising

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“She let go of the refrigerator door and turned toward the scent, only to run headlong into a man who’d just turned down the aisle.”
― Carol Van Natta, Shifter Mate Magic

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“You need more than a wound pack and a pain patch, compadre. I’m flying. Closest minor care, or a real medical center?” He looked down at his leg and sighed. “Medical center. I can feel one of them grating against my bone.” He tilted his chin toward her. “You need diagnostics, too.” “What, this?” She wiped at the blood that was trickling down her neck from her torn ear and wiped her hand on her already bloody top, careful to avoid her inexplicably bruised ribs and keep the weight off her badly bruised right shin. “I’ve had worse than this in faculty curriculum committee meetings. Academia is a cutthroat business.”
― Carol Van Natta, Pico's Crush

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