Assault on Absalom Station: A Starfinder Novel

Seven years after the galaxy awoke from a period of collective amnesia known as the Gap, the citizens of Absalom Station have established a new normalcy living at the hub of recently discovered interstellar Drift travel. But all is not well for the founding members of the Starfinder Society, as tensions between the living and undead inhabitants of the station come to a violent head. Now, the undead starships and invading troops from the dead world of Eox besiege the station, threatening everything the station's inhabitants have built. Can famed android explorer Tyrcell and their companions survive the chaos of the Magefire Assault and restore order to Absalom Station or will this be the end of their Society and their home? Centuries later, what horrors of war will fledgling Starfinders Chk Chk and Dae discover as they pry into the past?

Tim Melody Pratt (genderfluid, any pronouns) lives in Berkeley, California with spouse Heather Shaw and their son River.

Pratt's fiction and poetry have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Erotica, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Subterranean, and Clarkesworld, among many other places. She writes a new story every month for patrons at Patreon: www.patreon.com/timpratt.

Pratt has written several gaming tie-in novels, including for Forgotten Realms, Pathfinder Tales, Twilight Imperium, and Arkham Horror.

He won a Hugo Award (for "Impossible Dreams" in 2007), and has been nominated for a Nebula Award, Stoker Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, a couple of Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, a Seiun Award, a Scribe Award, and two Ignotus Awards, among others. In 2004 she was a finalist for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer (now the Astounding Award).

Pratt has been a judge for the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the Philip K. Dick Award, and other prizes.