About Nicky Drayden

Nicky Drayden is a Systems Analyst who dabbles in prose when she’s not buried in code. She resides in Austin, Texas where being weird is highly encouraged, if not required. Her award-winning novel THE PREY OF GODS is set in a futuristic South Africa brimming with demigods, robots, and hallucinogenic hijinks, and with her new novel ESCAPING EXODUS, she’ll be taking her weirdness off-world to a civilization living inside the gut of moon-sized space beast.

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About Matthew Bey

Matthew Bey was a co-founder of the print zine Space Squid and assistant editor at the Drabblecast podcast. He contributed to the futurist blog No Fear of the Future. His short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines including Black Gate, Town Drunk, Pseudopod, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and many other venues. He is an avid sportsman and urban forager who has won multiple blue ribbons from the Texas State Fair canning competition, and has been certified by Texas Parks and Wildlife as an elite angler.

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About Deep Austin, the book

Press release(PDF) for 2024 eclipse.

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authors in pedicab
Matthew Bey and Nicky Drayden
Nicky Drayden captures the moontower
Nicky Drayden looking authorial
Matthew Bey climbs the tower
Matthew Bey watching for sky blobs
Matthew Bey looking authorial
Matthew Bey in eclipse glasses
Nicky Drayden displays the cover of Deep Austin
Matthew Bey and Deep Austin
Deep Austin: The Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky
Deep Austin the book and a moontower
Deep Austin beneath an Austin moontower
Deep Austin the book next to a moontower
Deep Austin: The Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky next to a sky wolf
Deep Austin: The Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky
Deep Austin and a pair of promotional eclipse glasses
The first book in the Deep Austin series
Promotional eclipse glasses for Deep Austin: The Case of the Weird Carnivorous Sky