Book Description
He's a tough-talking, hard-fighting scoundrel on the run from religious maniacs -- and what he runs into is a trio of unlikely aliens: an Egg, a Floater, and an Invisible Man. Together they'll find the Spark of Life itself.
About the Author
Hayford Peirce was born in Maine, in 1942, and attended Exeter, Stanford, and Harvard. He moved to Tahiti in 1964 and lived there until 1987. At various times he was the part owner of a button factory, a garden center, a 1-hour laundry, and a computer business. He began writing in 1974 with science-fiction sales to Analog, Galaxy, and Omni, then had a few mystery shorts in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. In 1987 he moved to San Francisco and became a full-time writer. There he published three science-fiction novels via Tor. In 1992 he resumed writing short fiction and has had a number of stories in Analog and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Currently he lives in Tucson.
