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Cassius Station: a sprawling space city orbiting Tau Ceti. A place where everything is for sale and everyone has their price. I'm Deck Leonid, a private investigator. I find people and things, and run odd-jobs for various big-shots on the station. I keep my deals and try not to hurt people more than necessary. I maintain my reputation and make a decent living. But I've stumbled into something big, and rival gangs all want me dead. If only I knew what I uncovered. Now I'm facing killer cyborgs, femme fatales, rogue AIs, and the most dangerous and mysterious crimelord in the system, known only as The Earthling. I don't know who I can trust. Probably no one. But I've always had a soft spot for a pretty face. Once that weakness got my nose broke; this time it may get me killed. The start of a new series in the universe of his Emily Plair Saga, (OUTSIDE, SPLINTER, AMALGAM) by Gustavo Bondoni, an Argentinian English-language author of many science-fiction novels and short stories, winner of the 2025 Jim Baen Memorial Award.

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Gustavo Bondoni is a Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award-Winning novelist and short story writer with over five hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He has published several science fiction novels including two trilogies, six monster books, a dark military fantasy and a thriller. His short fiction is collected in Thin Air (2023), Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), TenthOrbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).In 2025, Gustavo won the Jim Baen Memorial Contest (to go with second and third places he'd garnered previously) and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.

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