Ross Hardy, Author at Nerds on Earth

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Ross is a writer, dilettante, and semi-professional enthusiast based out of Georgia. His attorney has advised him not to claim that he is "the chosen one" who will "save the cosmos" using "a lifetime wasted on comic books, D&D, and Kurt Vonnegut books." He does, however, make a decent quiche.

His debut novel, a science fiction satire of coffee and consumerism, is available here. He is an occasional contributor to Reddit's r/writingprompts under the name Atomic_Sleepwalker.

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