Past Saving

Book One of The System's Edge


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He's been hiding from his past. It just walked into his office.

In 2076, most of life happens inside the System — a full-dive virtual world where people work, play, and drink as if it were real. Hank Harris is a burned-out private detective scraping by with his synth partner Elysia and intern Layne MacAllan. Then a woman from his past walks in with a case he cant refuse.The System is supposed to be safe. People are dying anyway.Dry humor. Hardboiled detective work. Near-future sci-fi noir.Book Two, Bad Faith, is in progress.

About the Author

J. S. Fugate grew up in Ohio and now lives in Colorado, where he owns several businesses with his wife — who is, by every objective measure, the more impressive of the two. He spent four years as a linguist in the Air Force, which taught him to listen carefully and talk less, a lesson he has applied inconsistently ever since. Past Saving is his first novel. He is cautiously optimistic about the second.