Asteroid Hunter: A Neocat Adventure

by Phillip Nolte, A. Wirth (Illustrator)

With only his genetically modified cat for companionship, Emmett Carson finds himself stranded deep in the asteroid belt after his tiny asteroid hunter ship suffers a catastrophic power plant explosion...

Deep in debt and on the outs with his long-suffering girlfriend, things are looking grim. Carson needs to get his act together...

But first, he must figure out how to survive the next twenty-four hours...

155 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2026

About the author

Born and raised in Minnesota, educated at Moorhead State (Moorhead, MN) and North Dakota State University. I developed a passion for science fiction in junior high and have been hooked ever since. I started writing science fiction sometime around 1986 or so and about a dozen of my short stories were published in pioneering online magazines such as "Athene" and "Intertext."

I have been employed as a potato scientist at the University of Idaho since 1991. I currently serve on the editorial boards of two national trade journals and have written more than two hundred educational and informative articles for the popular press. I live with my wife and two cats (or is it the other way around?) in southeastern Idaho, where most of the potatoes are.

An irresistible compulsion just a few years ago to get back into writing science fiction resulted in "The Scrapyard Incident." Maybe the theme of the book would make more sense if I admitted to having an inexplicable interest in junkyards too...