Praise for Purged Souls:
About the author:
Kagan Tumer is a science fiction author and professor of Robotics and AI. He attended seven schools in five cities in four countries, all before reaching high school, and is steadily moving west, from Virginia to Texas to California to Oregon. Along the way, Kagan worked as a food server, registrar’s office clerk, print shop copier, soccer referee, math tutor, and well logging engineer. He is a member of SFWA, has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with a focus on AI, and spent nine years at NASA working on multi-robot coordination. When not writing, he studies AI ethics, teaches robotics, consults for TV/movie AI projects, and mentors future scientists.
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Art by Colas Gauthier; author photos by Kara Cooper Photography.