Thanks to Folly Blaine for making me look good in photos.
Thanks to Corby Anderson and Larry Hosken for helping with the puzzles. (What puzzles, you ask? Take a close look at the spacesuit, then visit www.waypointkangaroo.com to find the rabbit hole.)
Finally: thanks to you, dear reader, for joining me on this journey. Yes, Kangaroo will return. And no, I won’t tell you his real name. Not yet.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CURTIS CHEN graduated from Viable Paradise (instructors included New York Times bestseller John Scalzi) and attended Clarion West (instructors included World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner John Crowley and Hugo/Nebula winner James Patrick Kelly). His short fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction and SNAFU and will be featured in Baen’s Mission: Tomorrow. On top of all that, he’s a former software engineer and once built a cat-feeding robot. He lives in Vancouver, Washington. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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First Edition: June 2016