about the author

Hugo Award-winner Will McIntosh lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, after recently leaving a career as a psychology professor in southeast Georgia to write full time. He still teaches as an adjunct professor at the College of William and Mary. His debut novel, Soft Apocalypse, was a finalist for both a Locus Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His novel Love Minus Eighty was published in 2013 by Orbit Books. Defenders is his fourth novel.

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