Author

Alec Austin

Alec Austin is a video game designer and a graduate of the Clarion West 2000 writing workshop. He's worked as an undergraduate nuclear reactor operator, TAed for (and discussed fantasy novels with) a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, and earned a Masters degree from MIT in Comparative Media Studies. This is his first fiction sale.

Volition

T minus three and a half years: In two weeks, Karl Hoestler will graduate from the Akademie Der Zeitreise with an Untersturmf�hrer's commission in Temporal Operations. Karl does not know this yet. At the moment, he stands fidgeting in the chill white hall outside a classroom…