The First One's Free (17 page)

The First One’s Free
is the debut of
The Compact Universe Series created by TS Hottle. You can find out
more about this series by following his blog at
http://tshottle.com

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G
IMME SHELTER

Gimme Shelter
is second novella of The
Compact Universe and moves the action to Amargosa, an agrarian
colony that finds itself on the frontlines of a war the Compact is
unaware it’s fighting.

Meet JT Austin, the spoiled teenage son of a
CEO and an admiral. When JT’s parents decide to send him to
military school, he decides to run away to Tian, humanity’s
cultural homeworld. Instead, he winds up stranded on Amargosa under
the suspicion of a local constable and in the sights of his lovely
daughter.

Meet Lucius Kray, himself a constable. Kray
misses his glory days in the Compact’s Polygamy Wars and believes
they’ll happen again. When Marcus Leitman appears making one of his
infamous deals, Kray can’t say no. Leitman offers to arm Kray’s
volunteers and more if only Kray will look the other way as his
people plant an unlicensed GMO.

Get
Gimme Shelter
at
http://tshottle.com/gimme_shelter

HEADSPACE

“Headspace” is a Compact Universe short
story. Rafe is a grad student about to break one of humanity’s
oldest taboos: Making his artificial intelligence smart. Terrorists
want his work. The government wants to weaponize it. Rafe just
wants to impress a girl.

“Headspace” is free and available only to
subscribers of the Compact Universe Newsletter. Sign up today to
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stories and to have a chance at free review copies. The Compact
Universe Newsletter is at
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TS Hottle is a software developer from
Cincinnati who wanted to write
Star Trek
episodes growing
up. Since they wouldn’t let him, he decided to make up his own. He
lives suburban Reading, Ohio.

Find out more about TS at
http://www.tshottle.com
where
you can also learn more about the Compact Universe series and read
about whatever he thinks people will listen to him talk about.