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Cladespace #4

by Corey Ostman

Grace Donner speeds toward Earth, hoping to save Tim Trouncer. She needs to find synthetic surgeon and childhood friend, Dr. Raj Chanho. Faced with increasing political hostility, Raj has hidden himself and his technical expertise deep within the luddite haven of Cloister 11. Grace will have to land without attracting attention, dodge security, and find a way across the prairie—into the cloister home that had once banished her. Little does she know that the gene addicts who have control of Compstate have begun persecuting anyone with mechflesh technology, and the anti-tech aposti are lying in wait for her return. Her one hope to save Tim may lie in embracing the artificial intelligence community she once despised.

255 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 27, 2017

About the author

Corey grew up in Southern California with two loving parents, two dogs, two rabbits and many cats. He found nirvana in 1979 by bubbling Hollerith cards in FORTRAN and sending them to the LAUSD mainframe computer for subsequent compilation. He published his first commercial software in 1983 with the release of Gold Fever for the VIC-20.

He attended the University of California, Irvine, graduating with a BSME in 1988. His engineering career has exposed him to F/A-18 flight simulators, mass transit control systems, financial markets and retail.

A serial entrepreneur, he started his first company in 1982 (Interesting Software), an initial public offering analytics firm with his wife in 1996 (Alert-IPO!) and tackled comparison shopping with a group of friends in 1999 (Pricegrabber).

Corey married Nenita in 1995 and they have one son. They live in New Hampshire where they enjoy their summer gardens and their winter snow. Corey’s hobbies include piano, accordion, and skunking Nenita at cribbage.