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Suzanne Palmer is an award-winning and acclaimed writer of science fiction. In 2018, she won a Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Secret Life of Bots . Her short fiction has won readers' awards for Asimov's, Analog, and Interzone magazines, and has been included in the Locus Recommended Reading List. Her work has also been features in numerous anthologies, and she has twice been a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and once for the Eugie M. Foster Memorial Award. Palmer has a Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where as a student she was president and head librarian of the UMass Science Fiction Society. She currently lives in western Massachusetts and is a Linux and database system administrator at Smith College. You can find her online at zanzjan.net and on Twitter at @zanzjan.
Wicked, fast-paced, and fun. This is a total romp, and I loved it. --Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award-winning author of Ancestral Night Fergus Ferguson makes an excellent lead in this fast-paced hard-sf repo adventure set in space opera's sweeping scale and balanced on the heart of one very finely wrought character. Suzanne Palmer's writing is delightful. --Hugo-, Nebula-, and World-fantasy finalist Fran Wilde, author of the award-winning Bone Universe trilogy Finder is a raucous good time! Suzanne Palmer's Fergus Ferguson is charming, imperfect, always in trouble, and a most resourceful rogue. I can't wait for his next adventure. Characterization at its finest. Firecracker dialogue. --W. Michael Gear, New York Times-bestselling author of Outpost Finder proves hard SF, done brilliantly, is passionate, powerful, and brimming with humanity. Be it daily life or war in zero g, realistic communities in space or making us laugh at what clever beings we humans are, Suzanne Palmer nails it. I cannot wait for more. Highly recommended. --Julie E. Czerneda, author of Search Image Finder is a breathless ride. --Jacey Bedford, author of Empire of Dust A breakneck-paced and action-packed science-fiction adventure featuring an endearing con artist whose current mission to retrieve a stolen spaceship ignites a war.... A nonstop SF thrill ride until the very last page. --Kirkus Palmer makes short-distance space travel feel as comfortable as riding a bicycle, and concludes this entertaining caper with a clever resolution and a hint of intrigue. Fans of space adventure will find this a fine example of the form. --Publishers Weekly This will please anyone who embraces outer-space yarns. --Library Journal A fun, fast-moving jaunt into the zippier, zanier side of space opera. --B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog If you're looking for a fun, little jaunt into a believable backwater with lots of intrigue, fun, and unsettling reminders of how fragile we all can be, this is one book that manages to encapsulate that mixture quite well. --Fanbase Press Accolades for Palmer's short fiction include: Hugo Award winner for Best Novelette Asimov's Readers' Award winner Analog AnLab Award winner Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Eugie Foster Memorial Award finalist Locus Recommended Reading List Interzone Readers' Poll #1 Best Short Story Well told and suspenseful. --Locus A wonderfully enjoyable read! --Quick Sip Reviews Marvelous. [Palmer] has a real gift for description. --Black Gate Warm and funny and endearing. --SFF Reviews
