Daniel M. Hoyt is a real-life rocket scientist. However, some years ago, by demanding help with brainstorming or critique, his wife seduced him to running away with the writing circus. Dan has been published in Analog, as well as several DAW and Baen anthologies. He has published a space opera novel – Ninth Euclid – and he intends to resume writing them as soon as the day job lets up a little.