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    Headspace: Compact Universe
    Headspace: Compact Universe
    Headspace: Compact Universe
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    Headspace: Compact Universe

    By TS Hottle

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    Rafe is experimenting in a technology humans have considered taboo for centuries: Artificial intelligence. With it, he has learned to create entire mindscapes which a human can upload into, completely immersive and completely real.

    But some don't want Rafe to succeed. Some want him to weaponize his discovery. Some want to steal it as a terror weapon against the Compact.

    And Rafe just wants to impress a beautiful girl.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTS Hottle
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781386200895
    Headspace: Compact Universe
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    TS Hottle

    TS Hottle is a science fiction writer originally from Cleveland. By night, he writes, cooks, golfs, plays video games with his future stepson, and fights with a cat named Tearyon. By day, he is a software developer. Sometimes, he wins against the cat, but not often. For fifteen years, he wrote crime fiction under the name Jim Winter. Now he has returned to his first love, science fiction He has created The Compact Universe, a series of loosely connected space opera tales centered around humans' disastrous first contact with a species known as the Gelt. He lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Deer Park with his fiancee Candy and her son. When not writing or cooking, they both can be found fixing up their newly purchased Cape Cod. Which has a deck. Which makes TS very happy.

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      Headspace - TS Hottle

      Headspace

      Compact Universe

      TS Hottle

      Published by TS Hottle, 2018.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      HEADSPACE

      First edition. January 23, 2018.

      Copyright © 2018 TS Hottle.

      ISBN: 978-1386200895

      Written by TS Hottle.

      Table of Contents

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      The pain began squeezing at Rafe’s temples as he stared at the pad for what seemed like the tenth straight hour. Actually, he had been in the coffee shop only an hour and a half before fatigue overtook him. He was tempted to get another coffee, his fifth of the evening, but then he would never fall asleep that night. Tomorrow, he had to defend his thesis.

      At the same time, this anomaly in the virtual world he had created would gnaw at him until he figured out the root cause. Finally, realizing he would just spin his wheels from here out, he killed his session on the lab network. Being a genius is too much like work.

      Humble, aren’t we?

      Rafe looked up and saw the most beautiful woman he’d ever met in his life. Five and a half feet tall with green eyes, light mocha skin, and a cascade of dark brown curls spilling across her shoulders, she regarded him with a look of amusement.

      Yes, said Rafe. We are. If I was a genius, I wouldn’t be sitting in a coffee shop working myself into a headache. I’d be on another planet in a cushy office with my own staff. He stood and offered his hand. I’m Rafe, by the way.

      Serene, she said. I take it you’re a cybernetics major?

      Post-grad. How’d you guess?

      She smiled, looking down and away, then back up. Have you looked in a mirror lately?

      That gave Rafe a much needed laugh. I haven’t had time.

      And it shows.

      Rafe studied his new companion. She did not recoil from him, far from it, but she dressed... What was the word he was looking for? Bohemian? How about you? I don’t think I’ve seen you around campus before.

      She made an almost musical sound

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