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Alan Voss is a veteran technology architect and lifelong astronomy enthusiast who writes hard science fiction grounded in real physics.

His COSMIC THRESHOLDS collection puts working scientists in front of the universe's most extreme phenomena and asks what happens next. A solar physicist discovers a magnetar close enough to sterilize Earth's atmosphere. A governor leads 2,000 colonists onto a tidally locked planet where the wind never stops. An astrobiologist descends through twenty one kilometers of ice into an ocean on a rogue planet drifting between the stars. An astrophysicist builds a telescope to peer into the one region of the sky no one has ever seen, and the data starts looking back. Each story starts with a real object, a real proc ...more

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	The Pull: A Hard Science Fiction Quest Beyond the Blind Spot 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Alan Voss made a comment in the group Science Fiction Aficionados — Starquake \| Hard Science Fiction about a Magnetar topic " Hello community. Please check out my new book. There is quiet a lot of researched magnetar physics in it and I included the research as the last chapt ...more "
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Alan Voss made a comment in the group Shut Up & Read — Starquake \| Hard Science Fiction about a Magnetar topic " Hello community. Please check out my new book. There is quiet a lot of researched magnetar physics in it and I included the research as the last chapt ...more "
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Alan Voss added a status update: Hello! I just published Starquake \| Hard Science Fiction about a Magnetar Story: Archival X-rays reveal a magnetar twenty eight light-years from Earth. Solar physicist James Chen calculates that one starquake could shred Earth ozone and wreck the biosphere. The radiation arrives at lightspeed. No warning outruns it, and there is no way to know if the event has already happened. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX33V5RD
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Alan Voss made a comment in the group Shut Up & Read — Introduce Yourself topic " Hello everyone. I am Alan Voss. I am a new author, writing hard science fiction books, based on real researched science. I am writing stories about to ...more "
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Alan Voss made a comment in the group Science Fiction Aficionados — Introduce Yourself! topic " Howdy partners! I am Alan. An astronomy buff and a fellow science fiction fan. I recently joined goodreads to be part of the author community. I am wr ...more "
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