Unmitigated Acts

by Karl K. Gallagher

Aerospace engineer Karl K. Gallagher’s second collection of short stories explores ideas from tools helping people with their daily troubles to rearranging the fates of nations and would a dating app that’s actually good for pairing up people do?How do you disarm the safeties of an orbiting laser?Could a love potion be used well?What’s the limit to packing the Supreme Court?Seventeen stories of the near future and other worlds. Also includes a novelette in the multiple-Prometheus Award finalist Fall of the Censor series!

262 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2024

About the author

Karl K. Gallagher is a systems engineer, currently performing data analysis for a major aerospace company. In the past he calculated trajectories for a commercial launch rocket start-up, operated satellites as a US Air Force officer, and selected orbits for government and commercial satellites. Karl lives in Minnesota with his family.