Hawker was a good soldier--so good, in fact, that the Army asked him and his buddies to sign on for an extended hitch. What they couldn't know was that the extension would last forever. Century after century, war after war, Hawker and his comrades were resurrected over and over to fight on alien planets with ever more advanced weapons. The reasons for the wars were incomprehensible, but that didn't matter. All that counted was the fighting itself. From incarnation through incarnation, one goal remained in Hawker's mind. Somewhere, somehow, there had to be a way out of the loop. And he was determined to find it.
Stephen Goldin is a long-time science fiction author with more than 40 published novels, including Assault on the Gods, Polly!, The Parsina Saga, The Agents of ISIS series, and (in collaboration with his wife, Mary Mason) the books of the "Rehumanization of Jade Darcy" series. He has a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy from UCLA, has had a story as a finalist for the Nebula Award, and enjoys Broadway show music and surrealist art.