Author has written 2 stories for Sci-Fi.

The suggestion is to write a biography in this space. I can't stand writing about myself, so I'll write about what I write, instead.
Pretty well everything I write nowadays features characters from the Alder race. Appearance-wise, they're pretty well just like us, although they retain the thick fur we once wore. The major difference is that the Alder people are either constantly aware of how those around them are feeling, or constantly trying to hide it or to ignore it.
You know when you get That Feeling, and turn around, and find out you were right - someone really WAS watching you? Well, that's the start of it. From there on, it gets deep - and it gets dark.
"Saint" is about a schoolgirl named Senhi Motaku, bullied to the point where she fights back with unintentionally lethal force - now a murderer, she runs and hides and tries to think of a way to clear her name. "Saint" is a novella-length prequel to "Culture Shock."
"Culture Shock" features the Alder's first contact with humans. Like with most books, the plot's hard to sum up in a few sentences.
So, here's The Big Picture:
It's illegal to revive someone who's been dead for more than twenty minutes. It's illegal because so much of it is totally beyond our control.
The problem is, it's so damn hard to persuade the right software to go back into its matching hardware. And nearly impossible to tell whether or not you've done it right. People change naturally - they grow up, they go through different experiences that change them as a person - so you can't tell, straight away, if the right person is in the right body. When you force something as incomprehensible as a soul into something as simple as a brain, it can be very constricting.
Once you're reduced to meat and chemicals, you're very little else. You can't remember previous bodies, you may be wildly affected by your environment, and your personality might change itself to suit what it's being carried in.
So, imagine if one day you die, and remember all your previous lives, and are free from the chemicals that affect your natural peace of mind - you have all your senses back, and are at one with the universe and trying to make up your mind what to do next.
You see an opening.
Ten minutes later, you're lying in a hospital bed with an extra twenty years of memory patched in. For a moment you wonder what went wrong - and then you forget. You've been Joe Bloggs for all your life, not just the last few seconds.
As you go through the rest of your life, you get this irritating itch - a feeling that you're not really the same person any more, since your accident. And, of course, you're right.
Rain Samuti is a medical and metaphysical researcher. His project is finding out how to revive the right person. He was offered the chance to take part in the introductory mission to a nearby populated planet. He jumped at it - after all, it's not every day he gets to see an alien, and being essentially a doctor, he's curious as to how they work.
He's been researching long and hard, and playing with things he shouldn't. Five hundred years ago, Ouija boards were destroying people's lives, and comparing one of those to the equipment Rain is using is like comparing a broken magnifying glass to an electron microscope.
Something is wrong with Rain, on a deep and complex level.

And the Small Picture:
Rain and five other officers are sent to Earth in one ship. Hundreds of other Fleet officers accompany them, in separate ships.
The craft's captain is a woman by the name of Darker, who asks people to call her Jenny so she wouldn't sound strange in the human tongue. Being covered from head to toe in soft grey fur and having a tail was something she overlooked when she was going through the logic of this decision.
Her long-time best friend Gevauden Felis, who shaved his whole body for charity and never got over the itching, is her pilot. He casually falls in and out of love with her at the drop of a pin, and she with him. They have kissed exactly once, aged twelve.
Yamagata Sevichae is the grease-monkey who takes care of the ship's moving parts, Kaneta Gouri the secondary medical officer and his girlfriend.
Hane is a copilot and systems analyst. Since half the computers onboard the Scout are there to monitor the other half, people tend to ask him what it is he actually does. He sometimes responds with either "Eye Candy," "There was an extra seat," or "It's a secret." More often, he flirts his way out of the question.
Sooner or later, the flirtatious vibe between Darker and their human consort becomes noticeable, and they back off each other. Then they let themselves get carried away, back off again, and so on.
Rain's getting more and more unstable, slowly realising that there really IS something inside him, or maybe just travelling with him - something he has no chance of understanding, at least not until he dies.
The real problems start when they leave for home. Nightmares and hallucinations plague the crew. The air gets tense, and people are angry with each other. The ship starts to make groaning and creaking noises. The lights flicker, the walls drip with blackened oil. The crew realise something's gone BADLY wrong when the stainless steel begins to rust. This isn't a mechanical error - this is a fault with life, with continuity, with the laws of the universe and everything in and around it. The rules their race made for their own convenience - for example basic physics - are being confused, leaving them with two stable things - love and fear. Everything else they thought they knew has gone out of the window.
The warranty's run out on their existence, and they're totally on their own.
Things are about to get very, very surreal for these people.