Natalie (Gnat) was a child in an adult's body with her grandfather's implanted memories. Alone on an alien planet she learned to survive and thrive. She fought slavery locally, then planet-wide, then across the Milky Way. When she learned to travel to other dimensions - associations between species became blurred and battles became horrific. Now - throw in near immortality and extra-galactic threats and you have an interesting story. Nat learns to travel to multiple dimensions. Her dimension faces threats from similar races there. How do you fight across space, time, and multiple galaxies? Though MULTIPLE could stand alone - you would understand more if you have read Trade World Saga, Connection, or Uplift. If you've read them all - MULTIPLE ties them all together.
Ken R Pence, Ph.D. is a professor of engineering at Vanderbilt University. He is a retired captain from the Metro Nashville Police Department where he served 31 years (16 on SWAT) and has taught police and military in the US and Europe (England, Germany, France, and Northern Ireland) in confrontation management skills. He has researched sniper shot location for DARPA, acoustic sensors to protect African elephant herds and inexpensive magnetic levitation. He lives in Nashville with his wife and his large - drooling - black lab (Drools Verne).