Somewhere it Snows

by T.C. McCarthy

This book is out of print.

Lev Sandakchiev is old and worn out. An indentured servant to a warrior alien race, he wonders if he'll survive his last assignment. If he does, Lev has a choice: return to Ukraine - on Earth - or stay in space as the master of his own indentured servants, forever tied to the commerce of destruction...

12 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 29, 2012

About the author

Dr. Theodore C. McCarthy (“T.C.”) is an award winning and critically acclaimed southern author and technology development strategist. A former CIA weapons expert, T.C. is a recognized authority on the impact of technology on military strategy and is a regular speaker at USSOCOM (US Special Operations Command) and other commands on future warfare topics. Before embarking on a national security career, he earned a PhD in geology and bachelor’s degrees in environmental science and computer science – in addition to being a Fulbright Fellow and Howard Hughes Biomedical Research Fellow – and worked as a patent examiner in complex biotechnology and combinatorial chemistry.

T.C.’s short fiction, both literary and genre, has appeared in Per Contra: The International Journal of the Arts, Literature and Ideas, Story Quarterly, Nature, and multiple anthologies. His debut novels, Germline (the winner of the Compton Crook Award in 2012), and its sequels, Exogene and Chimera, explored current trends in weapons and biotechnology research, applying his insights to construct a near-future, peer-to-peer conflict where infantry combat is forced underground.

Reviews

[Philip Reed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a fan of short stories, and McCarthy's "Somewhere it Snows" is one I'll recommend to anyone who likes short, kinda depressing, but still enjoyable sci-fi stories. I've got an extended review online -- http://www.battlegrip.com/?p=40122 -- but as usual it's best if you just read the story and skip my review.