author, historian, museum consultant
Coming in August 2026: “Testament of Leaves,” a new novella from Fairwood Press.
In the isolated thickets of a faraway planet, a linguist lies dead. Inscrutinator Shameesh Kulkarni must find out why. But no one wants to talk: not the prospectors searching for mineral wealth, not the archaeologists trying to piece together a ruined city, not the local schoolteacher, and certainly not the indigenous people whose language the dead woman was researching.
The Taghrib Colony had existed for almost two hundred years, and all that time it had been waiting to die. Then one night Rustem, tinker of Biskra, discovered a nova in the sky…. See the March/April 2023 issue of Analog for this story of an …
Coming in May: The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 will again be available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. This classic book has been out of print for decades. Originally intended as a companion book to a nationally touring exhibit, …