Dragons Gone Wild

B.A.D. COMPANY IS AT IT AGAIN, THEIR CUSTOM-ENGINEERED DRAGONS CURBING ECOLOGICAL THREATS--BUT ARE THEY AT RISK OF BECOMING A THREAT THEMSELVES?

Genetic engineer Noah Parker helped domesticate dragons for use as pets and deployed them for the U.S. military. Now his team is tasked with designing dragons to tackle invasive species and other ecological problems, in wildly diverse zones, from the hot deserts of America to frozen wastes of Antarctica. It’s no easy job, especially because government approval requires the dragons have built-in fail-safes to prevent them from reproducing in the wild. To Noah’s surprise, the approval also requires the presence of an onsite observer--who happens to be his former rival from graduate school.

But as Noah and his dragons race around the globe to counter one environmental disaster after another, problems continue to pile up back home. The longer he is away, the more Noah risks losing the professional and personal worlds he has worked so hard to build . . .

Dan Koboldt is the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager), the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction (Writers Digest, 2018), and the creator of the sci-fi adventure serial The Triangle (Serial Box, 2019). As a genetics researcher, he has coauthored more than 80 publications in Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other scientific journals. Dan is also an avid deer hunter and outdoorsman. He lives with his wife and children in Ohio, where the deer take their revenge by eating the flowers in his backyard.

Dan can be found at dankoboldt.com and on X at @DanKoboldt. On his blog, he runs the popular ＂Science in Sci-fi / Fact in Fantasy＂ series, where experts in various fields contribute articles about how to write more realistic fiction. Articles from this series were collected into a book that came out in 2018 from Writers Digest. Koboldt’s ＂Putting the Science in Science Fiction＂ blog can be found here: dankoboldt.com/science-in-scifi. He has also written nonfiction articles for Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, and Baen.com.