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Sam Batterman is a writer of Speculative Fiction. My first novel, Wayback, was published in May, 2009. I'm working on my second novel, Maximal Reserve, and a sequel to Wayback tentatively called Insurrection.
Sam works as a Software Engineer and lives with his wife and children in Southeastern Pennsylvania.