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Welcome to my first outpost in the vast universe of speculative fiction. This is the moment in the game when the first colony ship lands, or the one world you start with is spinning alone in the void with the stars beckoning. Will the first encounter be friendly or hostile? Should I invest in infrastructure, technology research, or a good fence?

I am a writer and editor of technical non-fiction. For many years I covered the defense electronics industry: electronic warfare; radar; electrooptic sensors; command, control, and communications; intelligence, surveillance, targeting, and reconnaissance (ISTAR); and guided weapons. Before that, I wrote about topics in mechanical engineering: computer-aided design and manufacturing, finite-element analysis, fluid-dynamics analysis, and electro-mechanical systems. "Outre Mer" is my first novel. In it, I essentially project the technologies I wrote about forward into a possible future and out into space. That's the science. Then I developed characters that I've come to enjoy spending time with and sent them out into the universe to follow their dreams. That's the fiction.

To learn more "Outre Mer" and a little about me, please visit my website at www.mputtre.com. You can send me an email at mputtre@mputtre.com.

Thanks for stopping by.

--Michael Puttré, September 30, 2006

Outre Mer

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"My name is Janni. I am a duranni, a native of Outre Mer. I have a mind. I believe that I have a soul. I am a person." Born into Awakened society, Janni believes that people of all origins can live and work together. He does not understand why Earth sends its death squads into the forests of his homeland to hunt down educated duranni like him. Trained by his human worldmates, Janni leads a mission to rid Outre Mer of its jailers. Many on Earth are content to let Outre Mer go its own way. But a clique of policy makers and shadowy operatives goes beyond the pale to make sure that doesn't happen. Michael Puttré draws on his experience as an international aerospace, defense, and technology journalist to craft believable worlds in an age of starships. "Outre Mer" is a character-driven story of people on all sides of a conflict struggling to follow their orders, their convictions, and their instincts without always knowing why.