Michael Duda

Michael Duda writes about the things that get left behind, and the people who won't leave them. His War Dogs novels are grimdark military science fiction, beginning with Pit Bull: the war ended, and the soldier didn't.

His workruns across three lines that share one preoccupation - ruins, grief, and the stubborn business of holding on past the point of sense. The Rattletrap Watch turns the same idea warm, a space fable about a discarded kid and a home he decides to keep. The Whisper Lounge turns it toward horror, where a ghost story is only ever a story about someone who couldn't put something down.

He lives in Akron, Ohio, a city with more history than it knows what to do with, and has spent a lot of years looking at buildings nobody uses anymore and nobody quite gets around to tearing down.