Jason M. Hough is the New York Times bestselling author of Gears of War: Ascendance, The Dire Earth Cycle and the near-future Zero World, which Publisher's Weekly called "a thrilling action rampage that confirms Hough as an important new voice in genre fiction.” He’s been a 3D artist, animator, and game designer (Metal Fatigue, Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction, and others), and has worked in high-performance cluster computing and machine learning.

K. C. Alexander is the author of Necrotech, an aggressive transhumanist sci-fi, and co-author of Bioware’s Mass Effect: Andromeda: Nexus Uprising. Specialties include imperfect characters, reckless profanity, and an inclination to defy expectations. She writes whatever she wants to. Keep up at kcalexander.com.

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