R. Lee Townsend writes fiction and nonfiction that runs from the end of the Ice Age to the edge of physics. His novel Red Hands imagines a matriarchal paleoindian tribe on the Carolina coast some 11,500 years ago. His Light trilogy asks how the brain edits reality, and what we really mean when we call something “real.” He has played bass professionally for more than five decades, flies as an FAA-certified Sport Pilot and works as an audiovisual systems engineer. He lives in Maryland.
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