About the Author
LAURA J. MIXON, who originally published Up Against It under the pseudonym "M. J. Locke", trained as an engineer and worked for many years in the energy industry. Other novels by her, all published under her real name, include Glass Houses (1991), Proxies (1998), and Burning the Ice (2002). She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, science fiction writer Steven Gould.